<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.</li><li>to pronounce (a syllable, word, etc.) indistinctly by combining, reducing, or omitting sounds, as in hurried or careless utterance.</li><li>to cast aspersions on; calumniate; disparage; depreciate: The candidate was viciously slurred by his opponent.</li><li>Music: to sing to a single syllable or play without a break (two or more tones of different pitch).</li><li>to mark with a slur.</li><li>Chiefly British Dialect: to smirch, sully, or stain.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a slurred utterance or sound.</li><li>a disparaging remark or a slight: an ethnic slur against people of Irish descent.</li><li>a blot or stain, as upon reputation: a slur on his good name.</li><li>Music: the combination of two or more tones of different pitch, sung to a single syllable or played without a break.</li><li>a curved mark indicating this.</li><li>Printing: a spot that is blurred or unclear as a result of paper, plate, or blanket slippage.</li></ul>