Fail to articulate

Usage examples of slur.

The Cozzano campaign also issued a blooper reel of its own, showing the incumbent President and Tip McLane tripping over their shoelaces and slurring words, and suggested that these two might want to have neurological exams of their own.

Cozzano campaign also issued a blooper reel of its own, showing the incumbent President and Tip McLane tripping over their shoelaces and slurring words, and suggested that these two might want to have neurological exams of their own.

However, his condition resembled bromism, a semi-imbecile condition with slurred speech and drooling mouth.

Now the slurred tongue was querulous, edging on a whine like an overtired child.

It was a not unbewitching sound, a mix of flute and bassoon, my consonants slightly slurred, a rush and breathiness to most of my pronouncements.

From his occasional missteps and slurred speech, it was apparent he had ladled out applejack for himself from the canned heat wagon.

I forgot to say that when I would have slurred the excellence of the Baldwin in comparison with the Bellflower, Horace began at once to interpose objections, and defended the excellence and perfection of that variety.

A few of them, including Jeremiah, felt a bit lifted by the liquid fire, and they fooled around with a few high jinks such as clodhopping to the rhythm of their braying slurring voices.

There is a disposition on the part of artists to tell stories, to encroach upon the sentiment of literature, to paint with a dry brush in harsh unsympathetic colors, to ignore relations of light-and-shade, and to slur beauties of form.

He thought maybe Corvus, but his ears had slurred the language until all Romans sounded the same.

He was a proud man, dissatisfied both with himself and his calling, resenting, with less reason than Hans Holbein showed, that he should be condemned to portrait painting, yet by no means undervaluing or slurring over his work.

He had offended his mentor with that Klansman slur, then compounded the insult by smarting off.

Galileo deflected their slurs with humor: Learning of the death of one such opponent in December 1610, he wished aloud that the professor, having ignored the Medicean stars during his time on Earth, might now encounter them en route to Heaven.

They could hear the occasional sounds of merrymaking echoing through the streets, the slurred voices of merchants and Naren workers as they staggered between taverns.

My voice was slurring a bit, and I had to overpronounce everything so my audience could understand me.