Definitions for slur

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Spelling: [slur]

IPA: /slɜr/

Slur is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in slur (lrsu).

Definitions for slur

noun

1. a slurred utterance or sound.
2. a disparaging remark or a slight:
3. a blot or stain, as upon reputation:
4. Music. the combination of two or more tones of different pitch, sung to a single syllable or played without a break. a curved mark indicating this.
5. Printing. a spot that is blurred or unclear as a result of paper, plate, or blanket slippage.

verb (used with object)

1. to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over):
2. to pronounce (a syllable, word, etc.) indistinctly by combining, reducing, or omitting sounds, as in hurried or careless utterance.
3. to cast aspersions on; calumniate; disparage; depreciate:
4. Music. to sing to a single syllable or play without a break (two or more tones of different pitch). to mark with a slur.
5. Chiefly British Dialect. to smirch, sully, or stain.

verb (used without object)

1. to read, speak, or sing hurriedly and carelessly.

Origin of slur

1595-1605; apparently of multiple orig.; in senses referring to a gliding or smooth transition, compare Low German slurren to shuffle, Dutch sleuren to trail, drag; in senses referring to a s

Examples for slur

There was the slur of Flagg about his slack efficiency in meeting the schemes of Craig.

The face of the American flushed at the slur, but he held himself in hand.

Also, horrible-person-check yourself, which means NO use of the n-word, the f-word—any slur, really.

"Your words are hardly worthy of you, Fred," replied Jack, hurt at the slur.

It seems like only yesterday that people who cited Hagel's past views and comments were accused of practicing a politics of slur.

One slur is not good, while another is fine because the league has not lost any money in a consumer boycott of the name.

In one case, where Mark has a slur on physicians, Luke eliminates it.

It'd be a challenge to find a kid with a disability who hasn't had that slur thrown his or her way.

He had not forgotten the slur of the captain and had spirit enough to resent it.

Cooper added: “If Alec Baldwin had yelled the n-word to that photographer, or yelled some anti-Jewish slur, it would be over!”