slur

Once a slur that implied homosexuality was shamefully deviant, “queer” was “reclaimed” in the 1980s by gay activists as a synonym for “gay.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

"In that instance, the edit team did hear the racial slur on the feed and removed it immediately from the version of the ceremony that would be broadcast later that evening," Davie said.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

That this didn’t happen has sparked a back-and-forth about culpability, with Deadline reporting BAFTA’s assurance that it made the BBC and the broadcast’s producers aware that the slur was audible shortly after Davidson blurted it.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

Jones, who also directed Nanny McPhee and My Big Fat Wedding 2, told the newspaper he had assumed the slur would not be broadcast, and went on to celebrate the film's win that evening.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

“Salted snail,” you hear yourself say in a medicated slur.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

A spokesperson for the charity Tourettes Action said it "deeply" understood the offence and harm caused by racial slurs.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

A national 2024 Center for American Progress survey found that one in three LGBTQI+ Americans experienced verbal harassment — including offensive comments, slurs and jokes — in their place of work.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

"We don't want to live in a country where conversations and careers are destroyed and shut down by that most appalling of slurs," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

“The way he finishes notes, the way he slurs into notes, the way vowels sound, the choices of sounds he uses in the lyrics he writes—it’s just clever,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

The thirty-year-old German immigrant slurs that he wants out.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

“As a physician I couldn’t deny that I had slurred speech, that I was having weakness on one side,” she said, “but I was like, ‘Well, this is a dream, right?’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

In order to obtain a warrant to obtain a blood draw, the officer “falsely claimed that Senator Cervantes had an unsteady gait, slurred speech, and an appearance of drowsiness,” the complaint alleges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

He skipped over and slurred words as he tried to maintain an artificially quick tempo.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

To create an otherworldly voice, Elordi studied Tibetan throat singing and incorporated the slurred consonants caused by dentures he’d been given for the role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

It would have been a more moving speech had he not slurred his words.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Chopin sought to convey these moods through explicit performing directions about fingering, pedaling and slurring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

A prominent Australian television reporter apologised Thursday after slurring her way through a live broadcast from the Winter Olympics in a clip that went viral.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

Stocks had to crawl up the stairs at home, needed help getting dressed and was slurring his words for days after his best 24hr race.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

Lydic called out several aspects of Trump's conversation with Musk, which drew significant media attention for his rambling style and seeming slurring of his words.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024

A good example of slurring occurs when a vocalist sings more than one note on the same syllable of text.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones