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adjective

Slighting adj. Characterized by neglect or disregard.

verb

Slight v. t.

To overthrow; to demolish. (Obs.)

To make even or level. (Obs.)

To throw heedlessly. (Obs.) "The rogue slighted me into the river."

Slight v. t. (past & past part. slighted; pres. part. slighting) To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands. "The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies."

To slight off, to treat slightingly; to drive off; to remove. (R.) To slight over, to run over in haste; to perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight over a theme. "They will but slight it over."

Synonyms: To neglect; disregard; disdain; scorn. Slight, Neglect. To slight is stronger than to neglect. We may neglect a duty or person from inconsiderateness, or from being over-occupied in other concerns. To slight is always a positive and intentional act, resulting from feelings of dislike or contempt. We ought to put a kind construction on what appears neglect on the part of a friend; but when he slights us, it is obvious that he is our friend no longer. "Beware... lest the like befall... If they transgress and slight that sole command." "This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste."

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"Slighting" Quotes from Famous Books

... make God like themselves One of those affronts which women scarcely ever forgive Prescriptions serve to flatter the hopes of the patient Read description of any malady without thinking it mine Read without studying Return of spring seemed to me like rising from the grave Slighting her favors, if within your reach, a unpardonable crime True happiness is indescribable, it ...

— Widger's Quotations from The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau • David Widger

... you know and remember it: if sufferings and hardships overtake them, if wounds and bruises be their portion, they never grumble or repine at it, as feeling that Providence has a grudge against them, or that the world is slighting them: whether they live or die, the mere conscience of rectitude suffices them, without further recompense. So that the simple happiness they find in doing what is right is to us a sufficient pledge of their perseverance in so doing. Now all this is, in its degree, just the ideal of virtue ...

— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson

... "And now I'll just tell out what I've had in my head this long while, Mr. Gum, and know the reason of Nancy's slighting me in the way she does. What secret has she and Mary Mirrable got ...

— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

... story of our evening. I have observed before on the curious fact that women who think nothing of their husbands are nevertheless annoyed when other people agree in their estimate. Victoria was very indignant with Coralie for slighting William Adolphus and showing a ready disposition to transfer her ...

— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope

... tell you, that, to all appearance, her charming face will not receive any disfigurement by this cruel enemy to beauty, I am sure you will congratulate me upon a felicity so desirable: but were it to be otherwise, if I were capable of slighting a person, whose principal beauties are much deeper than the skin, I should deserve to be thought the most ...

— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson

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