slur
verb
[ sləː ]
• speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another.
• "he was slurring his words like a drunk"
• perform (a group of two or more notes) legato.
• "I can play it if I don't slur the notes"
• make damaging or insulting insinuations or allegations about.
• "I was not trying to slur the integrity of the committee"
slur
noun
• an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation.
• "the comments were a slur on staff at the hospital"
Similar:
insult,
slight,
slander,
slanderous statement,
libel,
libellous statement,
misrepresentation,
defamation,
aspersion,
calumny,
smear,
allegation,
imputation,
insinuation,
innuendo,
• an act of speaking indistinctly so that sounds or words run into one another or a tendency to speak in such a way.
• "there was a trace of a slur in his voice"
• a curved line used to show that a group of two or more notes are to be sung to one syllable or played or sung legato.
Origin:
Middle English: originally as noun in sense ‘thin, fluid mud’, later as verb meaning ‘smear, smirch’, ‘disparage (a person)’, ‘gloss over (a fault)’.
