Read full poem →Thus the king ; 160
And I, tho’ nettled that he seem’d to slur
With garrulous ease and oily courtesies
Dictionary Entry
An insult or slight.
In a Sentence
“a racial slur”
Origin
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Common Phrases
upon slur. slurover sluragainst slurslur racialslur anyslur ethnic
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Poetry examples for “slur”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I warn you, David Barrow, pessimist,
Against a general slur on life and man.
Deride the Christian ethic, if you choose,
Read full poem →Cart ruts and horses' footings scarcely yield
A slur for boys, just crizzled and that's all.
Frost shoots his needles by the small dyke side,
Read full poem →19. SLUR is a smooth, rapid, subdued movement of the
Voice over words, phrases and clauses of less importance. It