slurs

Noun

slur (plural slurs)

1. An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
   • It seems that according to their best guess, our mother's ^([sic]) drank too much coffee or alcohol, took drugs, or were under stress during the period of our conception. Underlying all this speculation is, of course, the big slur: we're some kind of unnatural or abnormal product, outside of...1989 December 10, Zane Gilstrap, “Speculations About Why We're Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5
   1. A derogatory term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
      • In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs.2020 December 26, Dan Levin, “A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2023
2. A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
   • a slur on one's reputation
3. An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
   • And now I'm drinking too much, so I'ma talk with a slur2019, Juice Wrld, “Robbery”
4. Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
5. A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.

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