Related Clues:

• To drink noisily, not quietly, is an insult
• Musical connector
• Insult sounds like ugly rumour, for starters
• Speak as though sloshed
• Defamatory comment
• Talk like someone who's had too many appletinis
• Shpeak like thish
• Slight stammer
• Slight effect of drink on speech?
• Mark indicating a musical phrase
• Bit of name-calling
• Connecting mark on a score
• Noise of eating unendingly is an insult
• Hurtful words
• What a rocker may do after too many drinks