slur

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The 'progressives' always ready with the slur are their aiders and abettors in this dreadful, but well thought out, conspiracy to destroy international law.

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  1. transitive verb To pronounce indistinctly.
  2. transitive verb To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.
  3. transitive verb To pass over lightly or carelessly; treat without due consideration.
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  • The 'progressives' always ready with the slur are their aiders and abettors in this dreadful, but well thought out, conspiracy to destroy international law. —  xymphora
  • Over the course of the album, his slur is more pronounced but still inscrutable, and he covers his lyrics in layers of ambiguity. —  Murmurs.com
  • In the letter, De Villiers claimed Watson's alleged slur was the "worst type of defamation and racism". —  IOL: News
  • A racial slur is a racial slur no matter which ethnic group you're degrading. —  The Independent Weekly
  • The use of the word "liberal" as a slur is to make Schlozman no better than a bureaucrat in Hitler's Germany who sat at his desk, day in and day out and stamped the orders that came from the trains which on their manifests carried the names of the millions who were slaughtered at Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen. —  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Probably from Middle English sloor, mud.

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  1. from Middle English *slooren, *sloren (see the noun), apparently from Middle Dutch slooren, sleuren, drag, trail, do negligently or carelessly, = Low German sluren, hang loosely, be lazy, slüren, slören, trail, draggle, = Icelandic slōra, trail, = Swedish dial. slöra, be careless or negligent, slur over, = Norwegian störe, be negligent, sully; perhaps a contracted form of the freq. verb, Middle Dutch slodderen = Low German sludderen, hang loosely, be lazy, = Icelandic slodhra, drag or trail oneself along: see slodder, and cf. slotter and slut. Cf. also slur, n.
  2. from slur, v. In the sense of ‘spot, stain,’ the noun may be a particular use of slur, n.
  3. from Middle English sloor, slore, mud, clay (later sloryd, muddy); prob. connected with slur v., and ult. with slodder, sludder.
 

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