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as in insult
an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings
a rowdy group of patrons was kicked out of the theater for shouting slurs
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as in stain
a mark of guilt or disgrace
your drunken behavior at the wedding has cast a slur on this family
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as in to insult
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
Donaldson also used a homophobic slur at multiple points.
—CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
Unlike, say, Fergie's take on the song, which went viral after being intentionally/unintentionally different, Andress was pitchy, slurred her words, and appeared genuinely out of it.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 July 2024
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Noun
As an adult in 1968, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, Oishi was slapped with a cruel ethnic slur by Spiro Agnew, the Republican Maryland governor who at the time was running for vice-president of the United States.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
Donaldson also used a homophobic slur at multiple points.
—CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
Verb
All of the questions that were asked about Biden are now being asked about Trump, and he's accommodated people by, as he's always done, struggling sometimes with his language, slurring his words sometime, mixing up names and things of this nature.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
Unlike, say, Fergie's take on the song, which went viral after being intentionally/unintentionally different, Andress was pitchy, slurred her words, and appeared genuinely out of it.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 July 2024
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“Slur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slur. Accessed 8 Sep. 2024.
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