slur
verb (used with object)
to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed byover ).
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Heaven bless me from such critics! yet if genius, youth, and innocence could not escape unslurred, can I hope to do so?
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson