An act of speaking indistinctly so that sounds or words run into one another or a tendency to speak in such a way.
Примеры использования:
There was a trace of a slur in his voice
noun
A curved line used to show that a group of two or more notes are to be sung to one syllable or played or sung legato.
Примеры использования:
Playful articulation with staccato, legato, slurs and the shape of the rising first-theme melody in…
verb
To pronounce the sounds of a word in a way that is wrong or not clear
Примеры использования:
Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.
verb
To sing or play notes in a smooth and connected manner
verb
To harm someone's reputation by criticizing them
Примеры использования:
The report slurs both the teachers and students.
noun
A remark that criticizes someone and is likely to have a harmful effect on their reputation
Примеры использования:
Her letter contained several outrageous slurs against/on her former colleagues., his comments cast …
noun
An offensive word used to insult someone because of their race, sexuality (= the fact of being sexually attracted to people of a particular gender), etc.
Примеры использования:
Tyres were slashed and a racial slur was painted on their car., the man swore at an officer and use…
noun
A way of pronouncing the sounds of a word that is unclear, uncontrolled, or wrong
Примеры использования:
The drug affected her vision and made her speak with a slur.
noun
A curved line written over or under musical notes to show that they must be played in a smooth and connected manner
Middle English: originally as noun in sense ‘thin, fluid mud’, later as verb meaning ‘smear, smirch’, ‘disparage (a person)’, ‘gloss over (a fault)’.
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A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.
Примеры использования:
He was found guilty of a libel on a liverpool inspector of taxes
verb
Defame (someone) by publishing a libel.
Примеры использования:
The jury found that he was libelled by a newspaper
noun
A piece of writing that says bad, false, and harmful things about a person, or the legal claim you make when you accuse someone in court of writing such things about you
Примеры использования:
[ c ] the whole story was a vicious libel., [ u ] angry at what the newspaper had printed, she sued…
