148 examples of slur in sentences

But the slur stuck fast.

At present camels are accommodated in the Carnivorium, and so are cows, which is a sort of slur upon the habits of these poor innocent vegetarians.

" "And what did you bite me for?" pursued Swing, disregarding the slur.

" "I'll manage him all right myself!" snapped Molly, up in arms immediately at this slur upon her horsemanship.

"I have run up an attempt on the 'Curse of Kehama' for the Quarterly: a strange thing it isthe 'Curse,' I meanand the critique is not, as the blackguards say, worth a damn; but what I could I did, which was to throw as much weight as possible upon the beautiful passages, of which there are many, and to slur over its absurdities, of which there are not a few.

But not content with singing the praises of her rival, Savage cast a slur upon Mrs. Haywood's works and even upon the unfortunate dame herself.

More than a year later he returned the slur with interest upon the head of the supposed author.

"Don't you ever read the papers, down here?" "Certainly," I retorted with some spirit, for the implied slur upon Our Square stung me.

The artists and their friends were, naturally, greatly incensed at this slur cast upon them, and an indignant and remarkably able reply appeared anonymously in the New York "Evening Post."

When Mr. Lister paid for a drink, the demon of avarice masquerading as conscience preached a teetotal lecture, and when he showed signs of profiting by it, the demon of drink would send him hanging round public-house doors cadging for drinks in a way which his shipmates regarded as a slur upon the entire ship's company.

She noted the slur without anger.

It could not have been long ago, and there is no slur to the track, so that it was not going fast.

To interrogate a glittering generality is to slur its projector; she wished her hearers to be dazzled, not moved to the impertinence of cross-examination.

The music stopped with a slur of notes.

He told Hyrcanus that Eleazar had cast that slur upon him according to the common opinion of all the Pharisees and that this would be made clear if he would ask them the question, What punishment they thought this man deserved?

For in this way he might be sure that the slur was not laid on him with their approval, if they advised punishing him as the crime deserved.

Therefore when Hyrcanus asked this question, the Pharisees answered that the man deserved stripes and imprisonment, but it did not seem right to punish a slur with death.

Ignoring the slur cast on her acquaintance, my wife inquired further about this William.

I ain't any kind of proposition to tie up to a nice girl like you, and I swear by my honor that nothing was further from my thoughts than matrimonynot meanin' any slur on you, for if I'd found you before, I might have been a happy manWell, here I stand: if you'll marry me, say the word!'

I don't like what may be called ecclesiasticism, partly because it emphasizes the intellectual side of belief, partly because it tries to cast a slur on the people who don't like ceremonial, and whom it does not suitand most of all because ecclesiasticism aims at making you believe that other people can transact spiritual business on your account.

But whether this represents "The Golden Age," or some other allegory or classic story, the picture is completely characteristic of all that is most individual in Giorgione, and I earnestly hope the slur now cast upon its character by the misleading label will be speedily removed.

While a very few pass it by with a slur as a mere temporary sensation of little or no consequence, it is generally regarded as a work of growing strength and importance, both by its advocates and opposers.

If anybody thinks I mean these words for a sarcasm, he is mistaken: no slur on official life, or on what the world calls a man's vocation, is intended.

I have been so very minute in my accounts of Kate's love-affairs, that I feel it would not be fair to slur over mine.

And then he smiled, and owned that he hoped some day she would be tired of it; whereat she raged, and begged him to forbid her, if he really thought her whole life had been so shocking, declaring in the same breath that she would never disown her family, or cast a slur on her mother and sisters.

148 examples of  slur  in sentences