slurnoun/slɜː/

• 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 humanity and their religions.
• 2

  An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.

  • In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs.
  • Elon Musk's recent declaration that the term "cis" is a slur indicates just how much transphobia is now central to Twitter.
• 3

  A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.

  • a slur on one's reputation
  • The undeserved slur which he had cast on my management of the household did not, I am happy to say, prevent me from returning good for evil to the best of my ability, by complying with his request as readily and respectfully as ever.
• 4

  An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.

  • And now I'm drinking too much, so I'ma talk with a slur
• 5

  Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.

• 6

  entertainmentlifestylemusicA set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.

• 7

  entertainmentlifestylemusicThe symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

slurverb/slɜː/

• 1

  To insult or slight.

  • And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy?
• 2

  To run together; to articulate poorly.

  • to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
  • "Thank you for your donation," the girl says, slurring the words together into a single syllable.
• 3

  entertainmentlifestylemusicTo 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 slurred
• 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[…]
• 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.
• 6

  To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

  • to slur men of what they fought for
• 7

  datedmediaprintingpublishingTo blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.