Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conveying or constituting a slight; belittling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disregard; scorn; slight.
- Derogatory; disparaging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by neglect or disregard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
slight . - adjective In the manner of a
slight ;belittling ,deprecative
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to diminish or disparage
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word slighting.
Examples
-
Laugh and be merry -- enjoy the sunshine of your youth; it is a sin to see a young thing sad; but never, never, as you value your womanhood, speak a slighting or irreverent word against God's great laws of righteousness, nor allow such a word to pass unreproved in your presence.
Betty Trevor George de Horne Vaizey 1887
-
Turns out that Poe's great sleuth, Dupin, in the course of describing his methodology, makes a glancingand slighting reference to a gentleman named Vidocq, whom he immediately dismisses as "a good guesser" lacking "educated thought" and constantly erring "by the very intensity of his investigations."
-
It seems to me that pursuing new ideas is a more worthwhile endeavor than slighting Sec.
Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
-
Although finding the Parthenon superior, Byron is by no means slighting mosques, considering that the poet could place only one architectural icon from the West above an entire class of Islamic monuments.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010
-
More important, they are slighting our warriors and mocking their commitment to this nation.
Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice 2011
-
Maybe that week she'd praised Barbra Streisand or else made some slighting remark about his supreme artistic hero, Alfred Hitchcock.
What She Found in the Dark Lee Sandlin 2011
-
Other than their abode and perchance their teaching, there is not extremely much slighting disbursement that can parallel in estimate to the support of a redesigned transport.
OPEN THREAD 2009
-
Although finding the Parthenon superior, Byron is by no means slighting mosques, considering that the poet could place only one architectural icon from the West above an entire class of Islamic monuments.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010
-
I am ultimately responsible for my own actions and apologize for any slighting my comments may have caused the true valiant heroes who bore the country's burden during that horrible conflict.
Cordoves, Joaquin 2010
-
More important, they are slighting our warriors and mocking their commitment to this nation.
Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice 2011
chained_bear commented on the word slighting
In castle architecture, the process of rendering a castle useless to prevent its future use. Dismantling a fortification, done by breaching walls, undermining walls, and later, by blowing them up with gunpowder.
August 26, 2008