v.
 (slurs, slurring, slurred)
    - (with reference to speech) articulate or be articulated indistinctly.
- pass over (a fact or aspect) so as to conceal or minimize it.
- Music  perform (a group of two or more notes) legato. ▸mark (notes) with a slur. 
- chiefly US make insinuations or allegations about.
n.
   - an insinuation or allegation.
- an indistinct utterance.
- Music  a curved line indicating that notes are to be slurred.
Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME (as n. in sense ‘thin mud’, later as v. meaning ‘smear’ and ‘disparage’); of unknown origin.