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slighting | slightingly |

As a verb slighting

is .

As an adjective slighting

is in the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative.

As a noun slighting

is the act of giving a slight or snub.

As an adverb slightingly is

(archaic) in a slighting manner, belittlingly.

slighting

English

Verb

(head)
    • His slighting of the company chairman was considered to be inappropriate behaviour.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a slight or snub.
  • * 1848 , Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson (page 376)
    • now flocked about him, striving who should express most respect, and, by an extraordinary officiousness, redeem their late slightings .

    Anagrams

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    slightingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) in a slighting manner, belittlingly
  • * {{quote-book, year=1880, author=John Nichol, title=Byron, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He is fond of gossip, and apt to speak slightingly of some of his friends, but is loyal to others. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=James Branch Cabell, title=The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The colonel touched upon the time when buzzards, in the guise of carpet-baggers, had battened upon the recumbent form; and spoke slightingly of divers persons of antiquity as compared with various Confederate leaders, whose names were greeted with approving nods and ripples of polite enthusiasm. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was afraid of a quarrel between Dr. Johnson and Mr. M'Aulay, who talked slightingly of the lower English clergy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1832, author=Edward Berens, title=Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=They are, I believe, sometimes spoken slightingly of by men of learning; I, however, as an unlearned man, think them particularly useful. }}