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
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
He challenged the most noted duelist of the southwest, because he dared to cast a slur upon Jackson's wife.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
“Do you intend to cast a slur upon her?”
From Hushed Up! A Mystery of London by Le Queux, William
Streckmann has cast a slur upon her conduct and old Bernd won't suffer that!
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Hauptmann, Gerhart
