slurred

Verb

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

1. To insult or slight.
   • And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy?1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 6

   Synonyms:

   abuse, dis, misuse, affront, burn, carry, cut down, disrespect, diss, give stick

2. To run together; to articulate poorly.
   • to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
3. To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
   • Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred1817, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical
4. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
   • they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend[…]1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...

   Synonyms:

   debase, disparage, befoul, tarnish, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, defame, degrade, demean

5. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
   • With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...

   Synonyms:

   cloak, hide, mask, occult

6. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
   • to slur men of what they fought for1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished...

   Synonyms:

   bilk, cozen, dupe, abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble

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