Related Clues:

• Speak like a drunk person
• Conclusions from famous trial you monitor? It's not clear, so to speak
• 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
• Vilify in print
• Shpeak like thish
• Slight stammer
• Slight effect of drink on speech?
• Fact-checking can help avoid it
• Mark indicating a musical phrase
• Mumble an insult?