Insult vs. Slur — What's the Difference?

An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental.

To pronounce indistinctly.

To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.

To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.

To affront or demean

To pass over lightly or carelessly; treat without due consideration.

(Obsolete) To make an attack on.

To glide over (a series of notes) smoothly without a break.

To behave arrogantly.

To mark with a slur.

An insulting remark or act.

(Printing) To blur or smear.

(Medicine) A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.

A disparaging remark; an aspersion.

Something that causes injury, irritation, or trauma

A slurred utterance or sound.

(transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).

A curved line connecting notes on a score to indicate that they are to be played or sung legato.

To assail, assault, or attack; to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.

A passage played or sung in this manner.

To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).

(Printing) A smeared or blurred impression.

To leap or trample upon.

A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.

(uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.

An insinuation or innuendo.

(countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).

An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.

Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.

A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.

An assault or attack; an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.

(music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.

An act of leaping upon.

(music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

(obsolete) A trick or deception.

Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.

In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.

To insult or slight.

To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

To run together; to articulate poorly.

To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

(music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.

To leap or jump.

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

To behave with insolence; to exult.

To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

A rude expression intended to offend or hurt;

To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront;

To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Treat, mention, or speak to rudely;

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

To disparage; to traduce.

To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words.

To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

A mark, thus [

In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

(music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato

A disparaging remark;

A blemish made by dirt;

Play smoothly or legato;

Speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur;

Utter indistinctly

Become vague or indistinct;