Hyphenation: slight‧ing‧ly <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span>) (archaic) In a <span class="searchmatch">slighting</span> manner; belittlingly, contemptuously...
someone cold, simple past and past participle cut someone cold) To ignore someone insultingly or <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span>. (to ignore someone): snub, cut someone dead...
inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span> of; to depreciate; to undervalue. August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury...
closed. 1909 March 7, “Little Stories of Fact and Fancy: Slightly and <span class="searchmatch">Slightingly</span> Mistaken”, in The New York Times, volume LVIII, number 18,670, New York...
1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]: The rogue slighted me into the river. <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span> to treat with a lack of respect; to make light of to give lesser weight...
lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span>; to minimise. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:diminish (transitive, rare) To...
The House Behind The Cedars: "Oh, Jeff Wain!" returned the countryman <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span>; "yas, I knows 'im, an' don' know no good of 'im. One er dese yer biggity...
replied, That he was a very unworthy man, if it were true, to speak <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span> of a family, which was as good as his own, bating that it was not allied...
Well, sir, legs like yours are the gift of God, and not to be spoken <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span> of; but though they seem to care very little for these passes, had you...
foot. (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look <span class="searchmatch">slightingly</span> or suspiciously. c. 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The...