transitive verb. To pronounce indistinctly.

transitive verb. To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.

transitive verb. To pass over lightly or carelessly; treat without due consideration.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To glide over (a series of notes) smoothly without a break.

transitive verb. To mark with a slur.

transitive verb. To blur or smear.

noun. A disparaging remark; an aspersion.

noun. A slurred utterance or sound.

noun. undefined

noun. A curved line connecting notes on a score to indicate that they are to be played or sung legato.

noun. A passage played or sung in this manner.

noun. A smeared or blurred impression.

noun. Mud; especially, thin, washy mud.

noun. A mark or stain; a smear; hence, figuratively, a slight occasion of reproach.

noun. A disparaging or slighting remark; an insinuation; an innuendo: as, he could never speak of him without a slur.

noun. A trick; a cheat. See slur, intransitive verb, 2.

noun. In vocal music, the combination of two or more tones of the music sung to a single syllable.

noun. In musical notation, a curved mark connecting two or more notes that are to be performed to a single syllable, or without break.

noun. . A slide or glide.

noun. In printing, a blurred or doubled impression caused by a shake or uneven motion in the sheet.

noun. In a knitting-machine, mechanism which travels on a bar called the slur-bar, and depresses the jack-sinkers in succession, sinking a loop of thread between every pair of needles.

To smear; soil by smearing with something; sully; contaminate; pollute; tarnish: often with over.

To disparage by insinuation or innuendo; depreciate; calumniate; traduce; asperse; speak slightingly of.

To pass lightly (over or through); treat lightly or slightingly; make little of: commonly with over.

To cheat, originally by slipping or sliding a die in a particular way: an old gambling term; hence, to trick or cheat in general.

To do (anything) in a careless manner; render obscure or indistinct by running together, as words in speaking.

6, In music, to sing (two or more tones) to a single syllable, or perform in a legato manner. See slur, n., 4.

In printing, to blur or double, as an impression from type; mackle.

To slide; be moved or dragged along in a shuffling, negligent way.

To practise cheating by slipping a die out of the box so as not to let it turn; hence, to cheat in any way.

In music, to apply a slur to two or more notes.

transitive verb. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

transitive verb. To disparage; to traduce.

transitive verb. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

transitive verb. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

transitive verb. To pronounce indistinctly.

transitive verb. To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

transitive verb. To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

noun. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

noun. A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

noun. A mark, thus [⌢ or ⌣], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

noun. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

noun. An insult or slight.

noun. A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.

noun. The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

noun. A trick or deception.

noun. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

verb. To insult or slight.

verb. To run together; to articulate poorly.

"But whatever the current term, it will in time become a pejorative slur, which is why they must keep switching every so often."

slurred  

denote  mouth  play  refer  speak  

Burr  Fleur  Fur  Kerr  Monsieur  

accusation  affront  aspersion  aspersions  banter  

accent  accent mark  affront  asperse  aspersion  

slurred  slurring  

slurred  slurring  slurs