Slur in a sentence as a noun

> CNN has a lot of nerve to use a racial slur such as 'pasty-faced'.

"I drove to the repair shop, they insulted me with ethnic slur, and I got mad and drove away.

" There is a power imbalance such that there isn't an equivalent slur you can apply to men.

I'm not the first to say that, but it turns out upon reflection it's not a slur or a metaphor, it is actually descriptive and fair.

Saying that something has a "Soviet" design aesthetic isn't a slur against Russia or Russians.

Who promptly apologizedSorry, but that wasn't much of an apology for a racist slur.

Some people's sexual harassment is someone else's harmless flirting, an entirely innocent joke may be an unintended racial slur.

Slur in a sentence as a verb

It's very unfair of you to post a long comment on an article you didn't bother to read, let alone dismiss it with a slur about "revisionist history", whatever that is.

USAian is hardly a slur, it's entirely different from your Dumbocrats/Republitards example.

Ouch, from your third link: "Paul Nochumowitz used a racial slur during the confrontation and, at one point, asked if Stansbury, who is African-American, 'wanted a banana.

Out of interest, could you enlighten me as to why the word "******" is a slur but "dumb" isn't?Putting colloquial use aside, both are valid words that describe conditions, so if one is a slur, isn't the other?

With that in mind, discovering that he called Ted T'so a "[L]inux-loving ********" and a racial slur on his blog[2], I'm now even more disinterested in the entire MPlayer development team and their comings and goings.

Here's how it ends:"So, the next time you see someone taking up a seat at a coffee shop to work on a cold cut delivery app at 2 pm, resist the urge to slur—instead of "techie," just call them a ******* loser dork with inconsequential ideas and a dumb life.

Slur definitions

noun

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

noun

a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"

See also: aspersion

noun

a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"

See also: smudge spot blot daub smear smirch

verb

play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"

verb

speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"

verb

utter indistinctly

verb

become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"

See also: blur