The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SLUR , but the solution may also be MALIGN which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Speak ill of crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLUR | 29 % | 4 |
| DIS | 19 % | 3 |
| MALIGN | 14 % | 6 |
| TRASH | 10 % | 5 |
| ASPERSE | 5 % | 7 |
| BADMOUTH | 5 % | 8 |
| RUNDOWN | 5 % | 7 |
| DECRY | 5 % | 5 |
| TRADUCE | 5 % | 7 |
| SLANDER | 5 % | 7 |
Why may MALIGN be the right solution?
"MALIGN" means to speak about someone in a harmful or untrue manner. Therefore, it is the right answer to the clue "Speak ill of".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Speak ill of
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- slanderingly
- beslime
- defamatorily
- scandal
- defaming
- scandalous
- scandalizing
- scandalized
- libelously
- mispraise
- vilify
- libellously
Crossword Answer definitions
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.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SLUR
- Aspersion
- Pronounce indistinctly
- Disparage
- Calumny
- Bad-mouth
- Cast aspersions on
- Insulting words
- N-bomb, e.g.
- Sound like you've had a few too many
- Speak indistinctly
More clues leading to the result DIS
- Belittle, in slang
- Put down, modern-style
- Treat without respect
- Trash
- Treat without respect, slangily
- Drive filler
- Bad-mouth, in the 'hood
- Put down, in the 'hood
- Insult at the center of this puzzle's long answers
- Bad-mouth
More clues leading to the result MALIGN
- Slander
- Badmouth
- Bad-mouth
- Spread lies about
- Drag through the mud
- Asperse
- Speak evil of
- Defame.
- Traduce.
- Caluminate.
More clues leading to the result TRASH
- Dumpster filler
- Badmouth
- Odds and ends
- Ransack, slangily
- Refuse
- Rightmost item on a dock, often
- Treat shoddily, as a hotel room
- Valueless stuff you can make a living collecting
- Vandalize
- Junk
More clues leading to the result ASPERSE
- Spread false charges against
- Spread slander
- Cast slander at
- Denigrate
- Denigrate through insinuation
- Slander
- Bad-mouth
- Sully
- Baptize
- Malign
More clues leading to the result BADMOUTH
More clues leading to the result RUNDOWN
- Criticize
- Quick summary
- Seedy
- Speak ill of
- Exhausted.
- Baseball play
- Decrepit
- Shabby
- Criticize point-after-point
- Seedy, and an apt description of a word hidden in 3-, 9-, 29- and 33-Down
More clues leading to the result DECRY
- Belittle
- Condemn
- Put down
- Openly criticize
- Disparage
- Pooh-pooh
- Speak ill of
- Strongly disapprove of
- Denounce
- Discredit