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- noun Plural form of
slight . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
slight .
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Examples
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Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis.
A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin « I Can’t Stop Reading! 2008
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Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis.
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Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis.
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Why is it the media thinks that Obama can look over the Hillary slights from the primary, but that Power and Clinton can not work out their differences.
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My favorite bit, from Irvine, who puts things in perspective: "SF fandom is never happy unless it's miserable, and nothing makes fandom more happily miserable, or miserably happy, than to invent imagined slights from the literary establishment."
Is SF Too Geeky? 2006
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My favorite bit, from Irvine, who puts things in perspective: "SF fandom is never happy unless it's miserable, and nothing makes fandom more happily miserable, or miserably happy, than to invent imagined slights from the literary establishment."
Is SF Too Geeky? 2006
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Favre’s inability to get over perceived slights from the Packers management was easily identifiable to anyone who has been on the downside of a failing marriage.
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He calls Anita Hill a "combative left-winger" who was "touchy" and prone to overreacting to "slights" -- much the same language that racist whites used to use about blacks.
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It's been a slow build-up, of this and other repetitive pass-overs and slights, that is making me wonder if the 15 hours a week I put in to the library world outside my full time job is even worth it.
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Such a pupil should be shown that nobody has a grudge against him, that the so-called slights are entirely imaginary, and that he should take a sane view of these things, depending more upon judgment than on feeling to estimate the action of others toward him.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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