slur

IPA: sɫˈɝ

noun

  • An insult or slight.
  • An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
  • A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
  • An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
  • Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
  • (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
  • (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
  • In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

verb

  • To insult or slight.
  • To run together; to articulate poorly.
  • (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
  • To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
  • To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
  • To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
  • (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
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Examples of "slur" in Sentences

  • Do they mumble or slur
  • Where did you get that slur
  • He slurs words when speaking.
  • He has severa slurs on his shirt.
  • Chink is a racial slur for a person of Chinese descent.
  • Prudie is contrite and apologizes profusely for the slur.
  • The article provides valuable information about the slur.
  • The name was a pun on the British racist slur for the French.
  • This is no slur on the quality of the individual establishments.
  • But these are interpretive answers to the implied slurs in the article.
  • The new whitewing slur is that Michelle Obama is not allowed to practice law.
  • The stupidity regarding this coconut slur is that Rubio is certainly not brown on the outside.
  • But whatever the current term, it will in time become a pejorative slur, which is why they must keep switching every so often.
  • January 8th, 2010 at 6: 39 pm tombaker says: ampu – the only thing more sophomoric than your failed attempt at an anti-Democrat slur, is voting it down when i call you out on it.
  • "The use of the word 'gay' in this trailer as a slur is unnecessary and does nothing more than send a message of intolerance about our community to viewers," said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios.
  • "The use of the word 'gay' in this trailer as a slur is unnecessary and does nothing more than send a message of intolerance about our community to viewers," GLAAD president Jarret Barrios said in a statement.
  • Yet, more disturbing than the slur is the fact that the leaders of the California chapter of the National Organization of Women still insist on endorsing a man who refers to an intellectual giant, one of the leading entrepreneurs of the 21st century, a renowned and respected women, as a "whore."

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