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Exact Match:

slur

(music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato

utter indistinctly

speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"

play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"

Synonyms:

• accent,
• accent mark,
• affront,
• asperse,
• aspersion,
• attaint,
• bad-mouth,
• badge of infamy,
• bar,
• bar sinister,
• baton,
• bedaub,
• befoul,
• bend sinister,
• besmear,
• besmirch,
• besmoke,
• bespatter,
• bestain,
• black eye,
• black mark,
• blacken,
• blink,
• blot,
• blow upon,
• blur,
• brand,
• broad arrow,
• calumniate,
• calumny,
• cancel,
• cantando,
• carefully ignore,
• cast aspersions on,
• cast reflections on,
• censure,
• champain,
• character,
• cold-shoulder,
• custos,
• cut a corner,
• cut corners,
• darken,
• daub,
• defame,
• defile,
• demilegato,
• denigrate,
• dip into,
• direct,
• dirty,
• disapprove,
• discolor,
• discredit,
• disparage,
• disparagement,
• disregard,
• dodge,
• dot,
• examine cursorily,
• execution,
• expose,
• expose to infamy,
• expression,
• expression mark,
• fermata,
• fingering,
• fudge,
• garble,
• gibbet,
• give the once-over,
• glance at,
• glissando,
• gloss over,
• hang in effigy,
• hold,
• ignore,
• imputation,
• innuendo,
• insinuation,
• insult,
• intonation,
• key signature,
• lead,
• legato,
• libel,
• ligature,
• lisp,
• malign,
• mark,
• mark of Cain,
• measure,
• metronomic mark,
• mezzo staccato,
• mumble,
• music-making,
• notation,
• obloquy,
• odium,
• onus,
• page through,
• parlando,
• pass over,
• pass over lightly,
• pause,
• performance,
• personal remark,
• personality,
• pianism,
• pillory,
• pillorying,
• pizzicato,
• point champain,
• presa,
• put-down,
• reflection,
• rendering,
• rendition,
• repercussion,
• reprimand,
• reproach,
• rubato,
• scamp,
• scan,
• scorch,
• sear,
• segno,
• sign,
• signature,
• singe,
• skid,
• skim,
• skim over,
• skim the surface,
• skimp,
• skip over,
• slam,
• slander,
• slidder,
• slight,
• slip,
• slip through,
• slubber,
• slubber over,
• slur over,
• sly suggestion,
• smear,
• smirch,
• smoke,
• smudge,
• smutch,
• soil,
• spiccato,
• spot,
• staccato,
• stain,
• stigma,
• stigmatism,
• stigmatization,
• stigmatize,
• stricture,
• stutter,
• suggestion,
• sully,
• swell,
• symbol,
• taint,
• tarnish,
• tear down,
• tempo mark,
• thumb through,
• tie,
• time signature,
• touch,
• touch upon,
• touch upon lightly,
• traduce,
• uncomplimentary remark,
• vilify,
• vinculum,
• whispering campaign,
• zip through