slurred

past tense of slur

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Verb
  • Her distinctive voice has been Widowspeak’s emblem since the band first emerged, warbled like Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval over CB radio.
    Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • At the time, TMZ reported that the fight started when the other inmate, whose identity was not made public, insulted the rapper.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
  • After a May court hearing, Moreno alleged that Miller insulted Zashin's fiancee in front of witnesses at an Ohio courthouse, and alleged that after a hearing this week the congressman physically grabbed Zashin and another attorney.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • The tawny owl’s dark release of song quavered from the pine wood.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Iraq similarly felt scandalized that its sovereignty had been so blatantly affronted and disregarded.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Many Idaho liberals of all ages were especially affronted by the fact that the Israeli government paid for the lawmakers’ travel, said Olivia Luna, the president of Idaho’s Babe Vote, who signed the letter as an individual calling for Rubel’s resignation.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Nat King Cole crooned about its kicks in a 1946 hit song.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Adam Sandler crooned it in the 2006 Click, as the soundtrack to his first kiss with Kate Beckinsale.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And at a White House cage fight, a former first lady was brazenly disparaged.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
  • In recent months, the president has frequently disparaged Obama’s South Side Chicago presidential library, posting on Truth Social on June 13 an edited picture of its campus turned into a tent camp and the main building depicted as a trash can.
    Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • This was a funhouse reality, in which children were lost and predators roamed, but through which white harts leapt through shafts of sunlight, songbirds trilled, and where honey and berries and acorns might be foraged for free.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
  • Femme tunes trilled in the background.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • Rushdie has spent almost 40 years under threat of death from Islamic extremists after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him, claiming Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses blasphemed Islam and mocked the Prophet Muhammad.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 July 2026
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“Slurred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slurred. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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