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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

... all his duties—so slight, indeed, that he would have been very angry if any one had spoken to him about it, and hinted at the truth. In this frame of mind, though most things were done, some few were slurred over, particularly the Latin Exercise and Grammar, for Marten's papa had not set him any task, and had even said Marten might have a holiday during his absence; and at any other time the boy would have been glad of this indulgence, but now he fancied himself so good, that he believed ...

— Brotherly Love - Shewing That As Merely Human It May Not Always Be Depended Upon • Mrs. Sherwood

... the two-arm semaphore is the most rapid method of sending spelled-out messages. It is, however, very liable to error if the motions are slurred over or run together in an attempt to make speed. Both arms should move rapidly and simultaneously, but there should be a perceptible pause at the end of each letter before making the movements for the ...

— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department

... exactly. There was an understanding that if I blew for him this afternoon—old Brewer being laid up with the shingles—he would take me through that tenor part in the new Venite Exultemus. It's tricky, and yesterday morning I slurred ...

— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... club to be of any use to him. On the Tuesday again he did not go to the club. He felt severely the loss of the excitement to which he had been accustomed, but the thing was too important to him to be slurred over. He did not dare to sit down and play with the man who had cheated him without saying anything about it. On the Wednesday afternoon life was becoming unbearable to him and he sauntered into the building at about five in the afternoon. There, as a matter ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... conformably to the laws and constitution, and every attempt to deprive us of it must be in the nature of an ex post facto law, and, as such, forbidden by our political compact." Following the unwise and undignified example set by the gentlemen who had preceded him on that side of the question, he slurred the Quakers. "His constituents wanted no lessons in religion and morality, and least of all from ...

— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams

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