Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
slur .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective spoken as if with a thick tongue
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Examples
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The only problem was that Martini had received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, inviting the prospect of another pontificate ending in slurred speech and trembling hands.
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She came toward me and began speaking in slurred speech.
Archive 2006-01-01 Jessica 2006
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The only problem was that Martini had received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, inviting the prospect of another pontificate ending in slurred speech and trembling hands.
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She came toward me and began speaking in slurred speech.
Entitlement Jessica 2006
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The first, in slurred Spanish, kept calling me "Jefe" (chief), a distancing form of address to say the least (think of "amigo" as a way of including someone and you'll see what I mean).
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The first, in slurred Spanish, kept calling me "Jefe" (chief), a distancing form of address to say the least (think of "amigo" as a way of including someone and you'll see what I mean).
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Sometimes they got to be very hurried, and then Mrs. Dennistoun saw as in a glass the impatient husband waiting, wondering what she could constantly find to say to her mother; sometimes they were long and detailed, and that meant, as would appear perhaps by a phrase slurred over in the postscript, that Phil had gone away somewhere.
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Bickett's speech was described as "slurred" in a booking report posted on the Goshen County Sheriff's Department website.
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Bickett's speech was described as "slurred" in a booking report posted on the Goshen County Sheriff's Department website.
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Bickett's speech was described as "slurred" in a booking report posted on the Goshen County Sheriff's Department website.
uc34sophie commented on the word slurred
Just for fun
February 16, 2010
bilby commented on the word slurred
Just fufluns.
February 16, 2010