Disgrace vs Slur - What's the difference?
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The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
* Shakespeare
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
(obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
* Francis Bacon
To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.
An insult or slight.
(music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
(music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
(obsolete) A trick or deception.
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
To insult or slight.
To run together; to articulate poorly.
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, title= (label) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
* 1662 , , (Hudibras)
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Disgrace is a related term of slur.
As nouns the difference between disgrace and slur
is that disgrace is disgrace while slur is an insult or slight.As a verb slur is
to insult or slight.disgrace
English
(wikipedia disgrace)Noun
(en noun)- Macduff lives in disgrace .
- the interchange continually of favours and disgraces
Verb
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(slurr)- (Tennyson)
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- (Busby)
- (Cudworth)
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- to slur men of what they fought for