slurred

verb

past tense of slur
1
as in warbled

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2
as in insulted

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  1. warbled
  2. insulted
  3. quavered
  4. affronted
  5. crooned
  6. disparaged
  7. trilled
  8. blasphemed
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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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  • 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
  • Platner insulted members of the military and belittled Bronze Star winners.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
Definition of insulted
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  • The tawny owl’s dark release of song quavered from the pine wood.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Definition of quavered
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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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  • 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
Definition of crooned
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  • 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
  • Pro-Cleveland newspapers disparaged Halpin’s character and ran reports that Blaine’s wife was pregnant before they were married.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 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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  • 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
Definition of blasphemed
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