I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
speech
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His speech was slurred , and she could not believe him drunk. ` Emilio, what's happened?
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Her speech is badly slurred , and the tendency is to dismiss her as a drunk or a druggie.
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When he spoke to give his name, address and date of birth his speech was slurred and indistinct.
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Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
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Much of her memory is gone, her speech is slurred , and she suffers seizures.
word
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She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support.
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Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After just a couple of drinks, she starts to slur .
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When Lionel is tired he tends to slur his words.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was laughing, his voice slurred with reds.
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Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
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Her speech was ever so slightly slurred and her eyes seemed to swim in and out of focus.
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Much of her memory is gone, her speech is slurred, and she suffers seizures.
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Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.
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The voice was the same: clear and authoritative, sure of itself, although faintly slurred by alcohol.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
racial
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The caller complained about racial slurs made by co-workers at the company.
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Avis attorney Joanne Dellaverson said the company denied that Lawrence had used racial or ethnic slurs .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Your accusation of bribe-taking is a slur which I shall never forgive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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California winemakers are now in the process of turning that ethnic slur on its head.
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Certainly it is the stuff of his sophomoric jokes, cheap one-liners and stereotyping slurs.
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He didn't appreciate slurs on his manhood - even jokey ones.
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In modern notation it would be marked with horizontal dashes under a slur .
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That's no slur when there's thousands homeless through the crimes of the property dealers.
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The caller complained about racial slurs made by co-workers at the company.
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With intense anger, I repeat, how dare she cast a slur on my character?