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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "slighting" in a sentence

    slighting example sentences

    slighting


    1. What bothers me most, is that she often tries to be clever and she likes slighting the others -especially me


    2. I make this little preface, because you once mentioned the young lady to me in slighting terms


    3. "How dare you say so, when he's got both his eyes? And very handsome ones they are, too," cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about her friend


    4. Some slighting phrases she had used still rankled in his memory; she had once spoken of Gretta as being country cute and that was not true of Gretta at all


    5. You would have better reasons than these for slighting so respectable a class of men," said Mrs


    6. She was in a position in which she seemed to herself to be slighting Mr


    7. She had an active force of antagonism within her, when the antagonism turned on the defence either of plans or persons that she believed in; and the wrongs which she felt that Will had received from her husband, and the external conditions which to others were grounds for slighting him, only gave the more tenacity to her affection and admiring judgment


    8. (He had put me there as a Minor Dunce—doubtless for my Success in writing Romances and for my slighting him those many Years ago


    9. When, after a long, hard day, in which she had been sent here and there, sometimes on long errands through wind and cold and rain, she came in wet and hungry, and was sent out again because nobody chose to remember that she was only a child, and that her slim legs might be tired and her small body might be chilled; when she had been given only harsh words and cold, slighting looks for thanks; when the cook had been vulgar and insolent; when Miss Minchin had been in her worst mood, and when she had seen the girls sneering among themselves at her shabbiness—then she was not always able to comfort her sore, proud, desolate heart with fancies when Emily merely sat upright in her old chair and stared


    10. His sympathy for the unhappy wife had become something sacred to him, so that even now, twenty years after, he could not bear a slighting allusion to her from any one, and would at once check the offender

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    Synonyms for "slighting"

    belittling deprecating deprecative deprecatory depreciative depreciatory slighting preclusion prohibition breach cancellation repudiation elimination omission

    "slighting" definitions

    tending to diminish or disparage