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   slur

   /sləː/

   verb

   • 1. speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another: "he was slurring his words like a drunk"
   • ▪ (of words or speech) be slurred: "his speech was beginning to slur"
   • ▪ pass over (a fact or aspect) so as to conceal or minimize it: "essential attributes are being slurred over or ignored"
   • 2. perform (a group of two or more notes) legato: "I can play it if I don't slur the notes"
   • ▪ mark (notes) with a slur.
   • 3. make damaging or insulting insinuations or allegations about: US "I was not trying to slur the integrity of the committee"

   noun

   • 1. an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation: "the comments were a slur on staff at the hospital"
   • ▪ a derogatory or insulting term applied to particular group of people: "a racial slur"
   • 2. an act of speaking indistinctly so that sounds or words run into one another or a tendency to speak in such a way: "there was a trace of a slur in his voice"
   • 3. a curved line used to show that a group of two or more notes are to be sung to one syllable or played or sung legato.

   Word Origin Middle English: originally as noun in sense ‘thin, fluid mud’, later as verb meaning ‘smear, smirch’, ‘disparage (a person)’, ‘gloss over (a fault)’.

   Scrabble Points: 4

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