(v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
(v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.
(v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
(v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
(v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
(v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
(v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
(n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
(n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
(n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], 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.
(n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following points should be emphasized: Besides the right proximal blocks, which are more frequent, right distal ones can also be diagnosed by the presence of slurred R wave and delayed onset of the intrinsicoid deflection in only some right leads.
(2) Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures.
(3) Mostly white men surrounded protesters and shouted racist and Islamophobic slurs and anti-Hillary Clinton chants while moving in closer, said Sudip Bhattacharya.
(4) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
(5) In the youngest animals the presence of an additional peak (between II and III) and the slurring of peaks III and IV were consistent features.
(6) The neurological manifestations developed during adolescence with slurred and slow speech with scanning, muscle flaccidity, sings of Trömner and Jacobson, intentional tremor, equilibrium disturbances.
(7) The family of an Oklahoma man shot to death outside his home are pointing to a history of criminal charges and racial slurs by the alleged killer.
(8) The two men were said to be drunk during the flight when the retired striker was reportedly subjected to racial slurs.
(9) In a clip of the video posted on the newspaper’s website, one of the men appears to be heard calling one of the women a “slit eye” in a racist slur.
(10) Patrick, his stepson, faced similar racial slurs as officers asked him for the location of illegal guns because, as he recalled an officer saying, “you fuckers are making more money a day than I am”.
(11) But even as the city attempted to clean up the mess, another group of at least four San Francisco police officers was exchanging text messages that mocked the community response to the scandal, used racist slurs and denigrated LGBT people.
(12) The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word.
(13) "Would you have run the article if it had contained similar slurs regarding people of colour or people with disabilities?"
(14) The mother, identified only as Joanne, said Goodes should not have singled out her daughter for using the racial slur, and blamed the altercation for the booing and criticism Goodes has faced since.
(15) She has also stumbled over her words and slurred her way through several shows in the past, prompting concerns about her health.
(16) The 69-year-old business mogul has made a series of slurs against immigrants, including the allegation that Mexico is sending “drug dealers” and “rapists” to the US.
(17) The attackers, dressed in dark clothes and wearing masks, had been at the protest hassling people on Monday evening, according to witnesses, who also said they heard them use racial slurs.
(18) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(19) And in response to tabloid-inflated hysteria about an influx of Romanian and Bulgarian welfare-hounds, Johnson cracks a cheap jibe about Transylvanians and tents – an undisguised slur on the Roma.
(20) Although he has fiercely rejected claims made by Engelina Tareyeva, a former colleague in Yabloko, that he routinely used "racial slurs", some of his remarks have sailed very close.
Slurp
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky urged a judge in Moscow today to end his days "slurping gruel" in prison, saying the fate of every Russian was tied up with his own.
(2) I called the show Six Stars because this is not about reviews,” he says between slurps of a bloody mary, fresh off a flight from New York to London.
(3) It’s for crony capitalists to be able suck off of them.” If you think that sounds obscene, wait until you get to the part about slurping off the gravy train.
(4) A mixed crowd of senior citizens and vintage car devotees here for an al fresco auction slurp their tea and ice creams and quietly look on.
(5) I once walked into work to find an aggressive looking – but lovely – nurse loudly spelling the word “gonorrhoea” down the phone while slurping white hot chocolate from a mug with the c-word on it.
(6) Their denial fits perfectly with their support for free market economics, opposition to state intervention and hatred of all those latte-slurping, quinoa-munching liberals, with their arrogant manners and dainty hybrid cars, who presume to tell honest men and women how to live.
(7) Little ones will enjoy poking around in rock pools and slurping ice-creams from the cute Jam Pot Cafe .
(8) It's probably only Bob Crow slurping cocktails and getting sunburnt on that poop deck.
(9) As Lune Carstensensen would say as she takes a slurp from her trademark golden goblet: "Unexpect the unexpected."
(10) I sucked and got something like a slurp of sweet silage.
(11) A drink with the colour and consistency of Labyrinth's Bog of Eternal Stench is stealthily emerging as the nation's must-slurp beverage: green juice.
(12) We risk turning into a nation of stay-at-home drinkers slurping lager in front of the television.
(13) She puts a straw to her mouth and takes a dramatic slurp.
(14) Between slurps, Elizabeth ruminates on how her overbearing feminist mother disapproves of her enjoyment of sex and muses on how her man smells like "my grandma's kitchen when she has been frying fish on her gas stove".
(15) They waited, and while they waited they slurped orange juice from cartons and lager from cans; they ate, crumbs spilling down their fronts, soiled paper bags chucked into flowerbeds.
(16) There was a long, lavish slurp, as the hindquarter tore from the rest of the corpse.
(17) But there's no doubt who left amid the biggest slurp of unctuous adulation.
(18) But suddenly a slurping sound startled the sleeper.
(19) At least now Robert can concentrate on important things, like being annoyed with the way Aaron slurps his cereal straight from the bowl.
(20) And now, some of them even whispering, they’re ready to throw in for Hillary over Trump because they can’t afford to see the status quo go, otherwise, they won’t be able to be slurping off the gravy train that’s been feeding them all these years.