Slur vs Detraction - What's the difference?

Slur is a related term of detraction.

As nouns the difference between slur and detraction

is that slur is an insult or slight while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.

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.

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(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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detraction

English

Noun

(wikipedia detraction)

The act of detracting something, or something detracted.

A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.

* (Isaac Barrow)

If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world

(Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

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