Crossword-Solution: SLUR 4 letters, 430 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Slur	v. t.	To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
Slur	v. t.	To disparage; to traduce.
Slur	v. t.	To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
Slur	v. t.	To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
Slur	v. t.	To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
Slur	v. t.	To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
Slur	v. t.	To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Slur	n.	A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
Slur	n.	A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Slur	n.	A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
Slur	n.	In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Anagrams

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SLUR	anagram	LURS, URLS

We have 430 clues for the answer “SLUR”

Clue	Answers
"Dirtbag," e.g.	1 answer
"Dirty dog," for one	1 answer
"Dirty rat," e.g.	1 answer
"Dirty rotten scoundrel," e.g.	1 answer
"Lying thief," e.g.	1 answer
"Play these notes legato" marking	1 answer
"White trash," e.g.	1 answer
"You lowdown, no-good bum," e.g.	1 answer
"You no-good dog," e.g.	1 answer
A discredit as on reputation	1 answer
Act lushly?	1 answer
All-too-common a campaign tactic	1 answer
All-too-common campaign tactic	1 answer
Arc between notes	1 answer
Arc on a musical score	1 answer
Arc-shaped musical notation	1 answer
Arced line connecting two musical notes	1 answer
Articulate poorly	1 answer
Ask a loaded question, maybe?	1 answer
Aspersion, e.g.	1 answer
Awful insult	1 answer
Belittling comment	1 answer
Belittling remark	1 answer
Below-the-belt comment	1 answer
Betray inebriation, in a way	1 answer
Betray one's drunkenness	1 answer
Bigot's comment	1 answer
Bigoted remark	1 answer
Bit of a loaded conversation?	1 answer
Bit of bigotry	1 answer
Bit of defamation	1 answer
Bit of dirty campaigning	1 answer
Bit of hate speech	1 answer
Bit of name-calling	1 answer
Bit of slung mud	1 answer
Cause of many a duel	1 answer
Connected notes	1 answer
Connecting line, in music.	1 answer
Connection between musical notes, indicated by a curved line	1 answer
Curve between musical notes	1 answer
Curved line between musical notes	1 answer
Curved line connecting musical notes	1 answer
Curved line directing a musician to connect notes together smoothly	1 answer
Curved line in musical notation	1 answer
Curved line indicating a slide from note to note	1 answer
Curved line on a music score	1 answer
Curved line on a music staff	1 answer
Curved line over a series of notes, in sheet music	1 answer
Curved mark on a score	1 answer
Curved mark, in music.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATERE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SLUR (5)

They were indignant at the random slur Cast on my parentage and did their best To comfort me, but still the venomed barb Rankled, for still the scandal spread and grew.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Used of or to a hacker, a really serious slur on the person's creative ability; connotes a design style characterized by primitive technique, rule-boundedness, {brute force}, and utter lack of imagination.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy, in order to dwell upon sensational details which may excite, but cannot possibly instruct, the reader.” “Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

There was more than one slur on the Colonel that made people shy of him; but the blot of the Diamond is all I need mention here.

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

Still mindful of the slur that had been cast on one of his best bedchambers, the manager took occasion to ask the travellers the next morning how they liked their room.

The Haunted Hotel Wilkie Collins 2008

Quotes with SLUR (3)

He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse

What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

Grantly Dick-Read

To slur “feminism” into “humanism” is to usurp women’s voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

Gina Barreca

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 657 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).