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verb

Slur v. t. (past & past part. slurred; pres. part. slurring)

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

To disparage; to traduce.

To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. "With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes."

To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. (R.) "To slur men of what they fought for."

To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words.

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

(Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

adjective

Slurred adj. (Mus.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slurred" Quotes from Famous Books

... to pooh-pooh this matter as visionary and inconsequential or to disregard aspiration as a vital factor in the scheme of education. This quality is fundamental and may not, therefore, be either disregarded or slurred. Fundamental qualities must engage the thoughtful attention of all true educators, for these fundamentals must constitute the ground-work of every reform in our school procedure. There can be life without arithmetic, but there ...

— The Reconstructed School • Francis B. Pearson

... substance of a critical investigation with the direct exhortation which becomes a minister of the gospel, when fellow-sinners constitute his audience, and the Bible supplies his theme. On the one hand, no important difficulty has been consciously slurred over without an effort to satisfy the judgment of a studious reader; and, on the other hand, no opportunity has been omitted of pressing the gospel of Christ ...

— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... is wanting cannot be numbered. He comes to London and to court. But how? By spreading his cloak over a muddy place for Queen Elizabeth to step on? It is very likely to be a true story; but biographers have slurred over a few facts in their hurry to carry out their theory of 'favourites,' and to prove that Elizabeth took up Raleigh on the same grounds that a boarding- school miss might have done. Not that I deny the cloak story to be a very pretty story; perhaps ...

— Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time from - "Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays" • Charles Kingsley

... my return from office, the little white shirt, and the fat little body used to rise from the shade of the creeper-covered trellis where they had been hid; and daily I checked my horse here, that my salutation might not be slurred over or ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... you to come to my house," she began passionately. "I just wanted you to see the lawyer who attends to certain legal matters for me." The little breathless rush of her words fascinated him, the alluring way she slurred her syllables together, the quick staccato with which she paused on short words! At first he hardly grasped what she was saying, so intent was he upon her extraordinary manner of speaking. It made him feel somehow like ...

— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke

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