Related Clues:

• Insulting innuendo
• Hurtful remark
• Fail to enunciate
• Talk sloppily after a few drinks
• Verbal attack
• Slight verbally
• Score connector, in music
• Material for a suit?
• Talk down
• Defamatory writing
• Reveal intoxication
• Written smear
• Character assassination in print
• Tabloid lawyer's worry
• Bit of slung mud