The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SLUR
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More clues leading to the result SLUR
- Slight scout leader unknotted ropes, initially
- Slight sirens luring transports
- Speak disparagingly of drinking noisily? Not half!
- Slight noise made by drinker is reduced
- Drink noisily, not softly, and speak without distinction
- Slight component of fisherman’s lures
- Slight sign above bar
- Baseless, lurid … containing this?
- Primarily, smear, libel, undo reputations?
- Slight hint of ‘blot’ wiped from run-down outskirt
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The straight part
We know that "Speak disparagingly" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case speak disparagingly = slur.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SLUR mean?
SLUR noun- An insult or slight.
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- A trick or deception.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.