An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
It seems that according to their best guess, our mother's ^([sic]) drank too much coffee or alcohol, took drugs, or were under stress during the period of our conception. Underlying all this speculation is, of course, the big slur: we're some kind of unnatural or abnormal product, outside of humanity and their religions.
A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
a slur on one's reputation
An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
And now I'm drinking too much, so I'ma talk with a slur
From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre...
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to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred