Slur

Slur can mean:

  • Pejorative, any term of disparagement.
  • Slur (phonology), unclear or abnormal enunciation.
  • Slur (music), a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played legato (smoothly).
  • Slur, a character in Mega Man Battle Network; see List of Mega Man Battle Network characters.

Famous quotes containing the word slur:

    “When a woman drinks it’s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It’s a slur on the divine in our nature.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    “Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll
    Of black artillery; he comes, though late;
    In code corroborating Calvin’s creed
    And cynic tyrannies of honest kings;
    He comes, nor parlies; and the Town, redeemed,
    Gives thanks devout; nor, being thankful, heeds
    The grimy slur on the Republic’s faith implied,
    Which holds that Man is naturally good,
    And—more—is Nature’s Roman, never to be
    scourged.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)