slurring 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

   Synonyms:

   gloss over, skate over