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Slurred   /slərd/   Listen
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.


adjective
Slurred  adj.  (Mus.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.





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"Slurred" Quotes from Famous Books



... a speed which made the familiar roads oddly strange, all the landmarks being slurred by the speed, I looked from one side of the road to ...
— The Story of Bawn • Katharine Tynan
... relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen other characteristics to which I have ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... splendour, and as they passed the door Harry made out what that feeble voice was saying: "The Council, Abbie: we must go to the Council: we keep the Council waiting, Abbie:" that came over and over again, and he knew why he had not understood. The words were run together and slurred as if they were shaped by a ...
— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey
... Bible and printed them, and was arrested for publishing obscene literature, the charge was proper and right. There are things that need not to be emphasized—they may all be a part of life, but in books they should be slurred over as representing simply a passing glimpse ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard
... build of these two men—a likeness accentuated, rather than slurred, by their contrast in colour and face, was now seen to extend even to their feet. When the stranger stood up at length in Zeb's shoes, they fitted him to a nicety, the broad steel buckles lying comfortably over the ...
— I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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