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.