(music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
<noun.communication>
a disparaging remark
<noun.communication> in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility
a blemish made by dirt
<noun.attribute> he had a smudge on his cheek [ verb ]
play smoothly or legato
<verb.creation> the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata
speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
<verb.communication> your comments are slurring your co-workers
Slur \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.'' --South.
2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], 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.
Slur \Slur\ (sl[^u]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slurred} (sl[^u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Slurring} (sl[^u]r"r[i^]ng).] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl[=o]ra, slo[eth]ra, to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish girl.] 1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. --Cudworth.
2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.
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. --Dryden.
4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras.
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. --Busby.
7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
The caucus resolution was presented to the House of Representatives shortly after Kajiyama's racial slur on Sept. 21.
But the school argues that it has taken great pains to fight racism and attract minorities since a spray-painted slur appeared on the steps of a campus building in October 1986.
The suspension, announced in February, came after a gay magazine quoted Rooney as making a racial slur that the humorist denied saying.
They testified he did not stagger, slur his words or show any signs of intoxication, although three witnesses smelled liquor on his breath.
Most of the also criticized Mayor Kathy Whitmire and black council members for not speaking out strongly against the slur.
Tsutaoka referred to incidents of racial bias last year at the prestigious school, including a racial slur that was scrawled across a black fraternity's poster.
"I called (Arjune) a liar because that's exactly what he did," Mangan said later. "He tried to make it a phony racial incident by lying about our officer and saying she called him a racial slur and hit him with her nightstick.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary has offered a compromise in its long-running quarrel with Jewish groups over its inclusion of the word "Jew" as a racial slur.
General Motors Corp. apologized to San Francisco officials for using a homosexual slur in a promotional video poking fun at a Japanese-made vehicle.
"Any kind of racial slur is offensive to me," he says.
Comedian Jackie Mason, who apologized last week for racial remarks about mayoral candidate David Dinkins, previously used a slur against the black Democrat in talking to Newsweek writers, the magazine says.
This past week, he publicly discussed his arrest on Sept. 1 by officer Patricia Madsen, saying she called him a racial slur, accused him of being a drug dealer and struck him in the back while he was arrested and taken to jail.
BBC vice-chairman Lord Barnett last night described criticisms of Mr Birt as a 'grotesque slur on a very fine man'.
Three white teen-agers taunted a black youth with a racial slur in the stairwell of a public high school, then shot and slightly wounded him, police said.