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noun

Slur n.

1.

A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to his name a lasting slur."

2.

A trick played upon a person; an imposition. (R.)

3.

(Mus.) A mark connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

4.

In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

verb

Slur v. t. (past & past part. slurred; pres. part. slurring)

1.

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

2.

To disparage; to traduce.

3.

To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. "With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes."

4.

To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. (R.) "To slur men of what they fought for."

5.

To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words.

6.

(Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

7.

(Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

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"Slur" Quotes from Famous Books

... opposed by the states-general: and the archduke Albert, seeing the impossibility of carrying that point, despatched his confessor, Fra Inigo de Briznella, to Spain. This Dominican was furnished with the written opinion of several theologians, that the king might conscientiously slur over the article of religion; and he was the more successful with Philip, as the duke of Lerma, his prime minister, was resolved to accomplish the peace at any price. The conferences at The Hague were therefore not interrupted on this question; but they went on slowly, months being consumed in ...

— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

... that neck which refuses obedience to the canons. He must be restrained, who does an injury to the whole Church; who is proud in heart; who has a greed after a name given to none other; who by such a singular name throws a slur upon your empire also in ...

— The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I • Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies

... from between his lips to offer protest against this slur, but changed his mind, and resumed smoking, though his ...

— Klondike Nuggets - and How Two Boys Secured Them • E. S. Ellis

... Paul approached in reality much nearer to insanity than the affected apathy she had assumed before Hermione discovered the imposition; but, nevertheless, the young girl felt that, sane or not sane, she could allow no one to cast a slur on the name of the man she loved. She was glad, indeed, that Madame Patoff did not make her hatred and her suspicion topics for conversation with the rest of the family, and she was willing to suffer ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... hill-billies! A hill-billy, the true mountain man or woman would have you know, is one born of the mountains who has got above his raising, ashamed to own his origin, one who holds his own mountain people up for scorn and ridicule. To mountain folk the word hill-billy is a slur of the worst sort. A ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

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