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Definition of Slurred
1. Adjective. Spoken as if with a thick tongue. "His words were slurred"
Definition of Slurred
1. a. Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
Definition of Slurred
1. Verb. (past of slur) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slurred
1. slur [v] - See also: slur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slurred
Literary usage of Slurred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"have been only casually mentioned or slurred over by Mill, the historian of the
period; while Mr. Marshman, the most recent author on Indian history, ..."
2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"So that the vizier, falling from so great an expectation as confiscating the
whole was, it could not be expected he would be quite slurred, and make no ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley (1857)
"... that to make room for page after page of the most formal matter-of-course
documents, events of the greatest importance are not only slurred over, ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"A good many Field Sparrow songs contain slurred notes, most commonly the ...
There are two. kinds of slurs, those slurred downward in pitch and those ..."
5. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"But Timothy, it appears, has his reasons for considering the old rent as even at
this hour only slurred over with filigree. If it be so, more's the pity. ..."
6. Lectures on the Ethics of T.H. Green, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and J. Martineau by Henry Sidgwick (1902)
"My answer is (l) that I am not aware of having in any way slurred over the
fundamental importance of the difference between subjective and objective ..."
7. The Theory of Musical Composition: Treated with a View to a Naturally by Gottfried Weber, John Bishop (1851)
"The secondary tone slurred to the principal tone, or detached from it. § 444.
In the first place, it would best accord to the intimate connection between a ..."
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