cast a slur
Example Sentences
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Sensitive Egyptian government archeologists had been afraid it would cast a slur on their efficiency, as they had felt when Carter and Carnarvon entered Luxor.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Nay, it would ill become me to cast a slur upon a lady who is both my guest and the wife of my comrade-in-arms," said the Seneschal of Villefranche.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
It was of course not the purpose of Binet to cast a slur upon the good sense and judgment of teachers.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Hubert insulted me in his will, and cast a slur on my character by forbidding me to marry you.
From Red Money by Hume, Fergus
Everyone in the navy here would feel it cast a slur upon the service if, at a time like this, a naval officer were tried and shot for treachery.
From With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
