to slight
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6.1
- verb
- /slaɪt/
- Offensive
:
desairar
- I didn't mean to slight anyone with my comments during the meeting.
- feel slighted
- slight or ignore
- intend to slight
And the second part is it comes from the sense of being slighted or being mistreated.
- And the second part is it comes from the sense of being slighted or being mistreated.
- Those who feel anger do not seem to have acted from a desire to slight other people.
- You know, I don't mind talking to the brass when when I feel as though I've been slighted when I said, you know, I want one.
- Aristotle thinks that we are likely to be calm towards them even if they they do slight us.
- If they felt like I got slighted, I got gypped, I got sandbagged or or maybe just, you know, I just feel like this person got more and I got less.
- Oh my gosh, Beverly, what would you do if someone hood slighted you?
Examples
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While I hope your daughter never feels slighted, I totally get where you are coming from.
Blog text (17) -
Keats was also, because of his lowly class background, extremely sensitive to being slighted.
Academic text (1999) -
That you would slight me I reject.
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Those who feel anger do not seem to have acted from a desire to slight other people.
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After all their kindness, I don't wish to slight them.
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Someone you slighted without even realizing it.
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Tell them how I was slighted by the Almighty.
Fiction book (1999) -
Am I neglected, slighted for a country girl, for an idiot?
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I may have unintentionally slighted some king or other.
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Caroline's perfectly capable of speaking up if she's feeling slighted in any way.
Synonyms
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7.7
To ignore someone on purpose to show you are angry or unfriendly
To show disrespect to someone by making them feel unimportant
Phrasal Verbs
How Insulting
- Offensive
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- Offensive
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- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Slight (verb) comes from an old idea of making someone seem 'small' or unimportant, so to slight someone is to treat them as if they do not matter.