Word Meaning

Meaning of slur

- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To disparage; to traduce.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
- To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
- To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
- A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
- A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
- 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.
- In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Crossword clue for slur

- A rude remark
- A smudge
- Affront
- Aspersion
- Bad pronunciation
- Disparage
- Disparagement
- Disparaging remark
- Drove off
- Felt strangely abandoned
- Hurtful remark
- Imputation
- Make indistinct
- Mumble insult
- Not the hustler casting aspersion
- Pronounce indistinctly
- Run words together
- Slander
- Slight
- Speak badly
- Speak indistinctly
- Speak unclearly