Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a slighting manner; with disrespect; disparagingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a slighting manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic in a
slighting manner,belittlingly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disparaging manner
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Examples
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‘Did you understand the phrase slightingly?’ he asked.
New Grub Street 2003
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He is gone, and I'll never speak slightingly of dominoes again.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily.
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Trethaway had the indiscretion, once or twice, to speak slightingly of him, but so fiercely was he defended by his admirers that the colonel developed the good taste to thenceforward keep his tongue between his teeth.
CHAPTER 13 2010
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He is gone, and I'll never speak slightingly of dominoes again.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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This I could make good by many, many instances, — one is enough, — Landor was once his demigod, and now, and for months back for no reason that I am aware of, he seems to avoid him, and speaks slightingly of him.
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Prokofiev spoke slightingly of his piano concerto in F major.
Rhapsody Imbued 2009
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The Marquis looked slightingly at the signed and sealed paper which
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of the
Les Miserables 2008
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“I protest, Lady Honoria,” said Mr Delvile, “that old tower, of which you are pleased to speak so slightingly, is the most honourable testimony to the antiquity of the castle of any now remaining, and I would not part with it for all the new boxes, as you style them, in the kingdom.”
Cecilia 2008
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