Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈslaɪtɪŋli/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈslaɪtɪŋli/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Adverb
In a slighting manner; belittlingly, contemptuously.
Usage- Archaic
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More examples (1)
Huſh, Siſter! Huſh! ſaid he: I vvill not bear to hear her ſpoken ſlightingly of! 'Tis enough, that to oblige your violent and indecent Caprice, you make me compromiſe vvith you thus.
After having talked ſlightingly of muſick, he vvas obſerved to liſten very attentively vvhile Miſs Thrale played on the harpſichord, […]
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"I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own however."
In order to enter with more discrimination into the style of our different authors, read often "Blair's Lectures." They are, I believe, sometimes spoken slightingly of by men of learning; I, however, as an unlearned man, think them particularly useful.
But the basin of the river Sutchane, which flows into the Gulf of America, is particularly pointed out by its climate and soil as the region best adapted for settlement. It presents the advantages of easy communication between the mouth of the Sutchana, near Port Nakhodka and the Usuri. Drawbacks occur in the want of timber, large oaks being only met with in the environs of Nakhodka, but the timber could only be conveyed some thirty versts up the Sutchane, beyond which the river is no longer navigable. Another inconvenience presents itself in the country being already settled. The ruins of an ancient city are indeed met with on the Sutchane, with very loft walls, now covered with secular trees. But this inconvenience is spoken of slightingly. The inhabitants, who are very numerous, call themselves, it appears, Manedza, that is to say “free people ;” but the Chinese designate them as vagabonds. There remains, we are told, notwithstanding the density of the native population, plenty of spare places for Russian establishments.
He [Lord Byron] is fond of gossip, and apt to speak slightingly of some of his friends, but is loyal to others.
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In order to console myself—to indemnify myself in some measure—I take to picking all possible faults in the people who glide by. I shrug my shoulders contemptuously, and look slightingly at them according as they pass.
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.
Adverb
in a disparaging manner
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these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging ‘only to a story’