slur over

Verb

slur over (third-person singular simple present slurs over, present participle slurring over, simple past and past participle slurred over)

1. (dated) To deal with something hurriedly; to treat in a perfunctory manner.
   • The bad points of the work are slurred over and the good ones brought out into the best light, all this through a feeling akin to that which makes it unpleasant to speak ill of one to one's face.1846, E.A. Poe, The literati of New York, no. 1
   • He took up several sheets of paper covered with writing, and began to read rapidly, slurring over the uninteresting legal terms and laying particular stress on some sentences.1900, Leo Tolstoy, “Fanárin, the Advocate—The Petition”, in Louise Maude, transl., Resurrection: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, book I, page 177

   Synonyms:

   gloss over, skate over