slurring

verb

present participle of slur
1
as in crooning

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2
as in insulting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slurring
  1. crooning
  2. insulting
  3. quavering
  4. blaspheming
  5. trilling
  6. disparaging
  7. humming
  8. belittling
Verb
  • The minute-long clip, shared on June 10, shows Langley crooning the late '90s ballad while accompanying herself on piano.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • The camera pans to Cody crooning while strumming his guitar throughout the video.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
Definition of crooning
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  • Odysseus gets into trouble in the first place by insulting the gods, thus making an enemy of Poseidon.
    — Jim Beckerman, USA Today, 16 July 2026
  • Brooks, a South Carolina congressman, was retaliating for a speech Sumner had given condemning slavery and personally insulting a relative of Brooks.
    — Paul Quigley, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
Definition of insulting
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  • Tiny Silver was a birdlike woman, either very young or very old, quavering.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • Softly so as not to drown out the quavering notes, the congregation put words to the melody.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
Definition of quavering
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  • For his followers, blaspheming the Holocaust and celebrating Hitler became a way to signal contempt for the political religion of postwar liberalism.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • How to say anything about The Changeling without blaspheming its deep mystery, its reverence for the unspeakable, animal heart of creation?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of blaspheming
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  • Rock Harbor to Daisy Farm Campground This trail almost entirely follows the coast for 7 miles, with a soundtrack of lapping waves, trilling loons, and the occasional outboard motor.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 7 June 2026
  • In a now-viral clip, Carpenter overheard someone from the crowd trilling during her set for Weekend 1 and asked if the audience member was yodeling.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2026
Definition of trilling
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  • The judge also reiterated an earlier order for neither Mortensen nor Taylor to make disparaging remarks about the other on social media.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
  • Any athlete chatting with a fan in disparaging ways about another player shows questionable judgment.
    — Jason Jones, New York Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of disparaging
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  • By contrast, the three data centers coming to Miami-Dade are much smaller, requiring less energy to keep the computers humming all day and less water to circulate and keep the computers cool.
    — Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • The show has turned into a case-of-the-season procedural with the alien stuff humming in the background as the overarching mythology.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 July 2026
Definition of humming
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  • The list of analysts who have spent years belittling Allen is extensive.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
  • The remark was meant to be an insult, belittling a company that seemed to care more about hardware profit margins than design and innovation.
    — Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 28 May 2026
Definition of belittling
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