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Slur vs Deprecation - What's the difference?

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Slur is a related term of deprecation.


As nouns the difference between slur and deprecation

is that slur is an insult or slight while deprecation is prayer asking for happiness or misfortune to befall others.

As a verb slur

is to insult or slight.

slur

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (slurr)
  • To insult or slight.
  • (Tennyson)
  • To run together; to articulate poorly.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • (label) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
  • (Busby)
  • To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
  • (Cudworth)
  • To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
  • To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
  • * 1662 , , (Hudibras)
  • to slur men of what they fought for
  • To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
  • Derived terms

    * slur over

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    deprecation

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of deprecating.
  • (countable) A praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.
  • Entreaty]] for pardon; [[petition, petitioning.
  • (countable) An imprecation or curse.
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