Crossword-Solution: SLURS 5 letters, 81 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Legatos 1 answer
Pronunciation faults. 1 answer
Pronounces indistinctly 1 answer
Pronounces as if drunk 1 answer
Produces lush sounds? 1 answer
Passes over lightly 1 answer
Offensive words 1 answer
Mispronounces 1 answer
Marks, in music. 1 answer
Marks for a score 1 answer
Racial epithets 1 answer
Legato markings 1 answer
Legato effects 1 answer
Insulting allegations 1 answer
Hurtful labels 1 answer
Doesn't enunciate 1 answer
Curved lines on sheet music 1 answer
Curved lines in music. 1 answer
Arcs in sheet music 1 answer
"Yellow-bellied coward" and others 1 answer
Speaks carelessly 1 answer
Vilipends 1 answer
Utters indistinctly 1 answer
Uncomplimentary remarks. 1 answer
Talks unclearly 1 answer
Talks like a tosspot 1 answer
Talks highly? 1 answer
Talks drunkenly 1 answer
Staff connections 1 answer
Speaks tipsily 1 answer
Speaks like the inebriated 1 answer
Speaks after several drinks, perhaps 1 answer
Sounds tipsy, maybe 1 answer
Sounds sloshed 1 answer
Slips over 1 answer
Sheet music arcs 1 answer
Musical ties between notes, or offensive remarks 1 answer
Says indistinctly 1 answer
Reveals intoxication 1 answer
Pronounces poorly 2 answers
Music markings 2 answers
Sheet-music notations 2 answers
Doesn't speak clearly? 2 answers
Talks indistinctly 2 answers
Speaks unclearly 2 answers
Disparaging comments 2 answers
Fails to enunciate 2 answers
Defamatory remarks 2 answers
Innuendoes. 2 answers
Innuendos 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLURS (5)

The Commodore had seen the slurs in the "Scorpion" and the "Argus" and the "Evening Journal." "A pity," said he, "that Newspaper Row, that can do so much good, should do so much harm.
The brick moon and other stories Edward Everett Hale 1999
Browning’s poem, ‘The Mask’: “Behind no prison-grate, she said, Which slurs the sunshine half a mile, Live captives so uncomforted As souls behind a smile.” As to the Merrifields, there was no chance of seeing them, for Sir Richard had gone to India in some official capacity, and no doubt, as everyone said, they would take good care to marry Freda out there.
Derrick Vaughan--Novelist Edna Lyall 1999
Her dark eyes—arched by brows of so keen, slender, and soft a curve, that they resembled nothing so much as two slurs in music—showed primarily a bright sparkle each.
Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy 2001
Does he make a slip in decorum, which Milton declares to be the principal thing? His proud crest and armorial bearings support him: no bend-sinister slurs his poetical escutcheon! Is he dull, or does he put of some trashy production on the public? It is not charged to his account, as a deficiency which he must make good at the peril of his admirers.
Table-Talk William Hazlitt 2002
The extraordinary slides and slurs almost obliterated the notes of the original tune, and the “little kick,” as Maimie called it, at the end of the second line, gave her a little start.
The Man From Glengarry Ralph Connor 2006

Quotes with SLURS (3)

Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores, the wild cards, the bighearted, the family album of alcoholics, the saints, the old aunt propped in a chair saying only "da-da," the slow-motion suicides, but at four, six, ten, they loomed, powerful, not as types but as themselves. Among them, logic takes wing." (pg. 31)
Frances Mayes Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
There is no racism against white people. If you can turn on the tv and see people like you that's not racism. If you can have your favorite characters who are poc race changed to look like you then you don't face racism. If you don't think about Ferguson every single second because your race is being killed every hour, that's not racism. If you don't get called derogatory slurs because of your skin tone that's not racism. If you don't hate your body because of your race that'…
Adam Snowflake
A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses, racial slurs, and overt bigotry are widely condemned by people across the political spectrum; they are understood to be remnants of the past, no longer reflective …
Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 122 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).