Treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly.
1 He said: 'I cannot slur over the words of our Lord.
2 I do not, therefore, slur over my scheme for disturbing the professor's peace of mind.
3 Tickell manages the imputation of drink, but has to slur over the dog and the deer:-
4 Christians usually emphasize those texts that make for what they hold true, and slur over others.
5 Their stiff wise men: I call them wise, not stiff-thusdid I learn to slur over words.
6 They just slur over a few words-crossthemselves-kissa relic, or some little matter of that sort.
7 A question difficult of debate, involving much that the mind is wont to slur over in natural scruple.
8 The dissonance between that history and the painted slur over the weekend has left Black stunned and wistful.
9 To slur over the faults and failings of the great is not only inartistic: it is also faint-hearted and unjust.
10 That is true, but those who advocate this policy slur over many difficulties, and the relative power of endurance of both parties.
11 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.
12 Reed slurred over most of the details of the accident, even now.
13 Perhaps it was she pronounced each word; nothing was slurred over .
14 Omissions were frequent; hard passages were willfully distorted or slurred over .
15 Omissions were frequent; hard passages were wilfully distorted or slurred over .
16 Anthony slurred over the greater question by tactfully emphasizing the lesser.
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