SLURRED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

slurred

verb

past tense of slur

as in warbled

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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

Definition of warbled

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The struggle for reparations on the African continent is ongoing, and survivors are being insulted by the failure to implement comprehensive reparations programs that are due.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Outside, the guards were often genial and chatty; inside, visitors were treated as objects of suspicion, barked at and insulted.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of insulted

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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
Thinking about it that way invests meaning in an anecdote Norris related about a member of the copy department so affronted by something a colleague had done that she was inspired to pick up an object and hurl it in that colleague’s general direction.

— Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

Definition of affronted

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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

Definition of disparaged

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Femme tunes trilled in the background.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.

— Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026

Definition of trilled

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slurred (over)

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