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slurred
verb as in insult
Strong matches
verb as in mumble words
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back.
In one case, a man sent her a text reply to a campaign message with a racial slur, claimed to be a Vietnam war veteran and said he would bring an AK-47 rifle to the polls to “take care of her.”
“I was a nobody there,” Sisler insisted in a telephone interview, during which he slurred his words and acknowledged he was drunk.
When he slurred and smelled of alcohol, they ordered him out of the car for sobriety tests.
The shooting left Brady with slurred speech, and with partial paralysis, which required him to use a wheelchair.
It's remarkable, too, that during his delivery, Lou showed no significant signs of slurred speech, often so characteristic of ALS.
“We could see he looked rough, from the way he held his body and slurred some of his words,” the official said.
This ceremony, as may be surmised, was by no means slurred over without due rejoicing.
Anthony slurred over the greater question by tactfully emphasizing the lesser.
So long as it was supposed that all women descended from Eve, the difficulty might be slurred over by the name of heredity.
Her voice slurred over from the question to her next outburst.
Very occasionally three, in cases where one of the syllables can be slurred away in pronunciation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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