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)