- comparative of slight.
slighter
Example Sentences
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As the storylines have become more current, they have, perhaps inevitably, become both slighter and messier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
His most dramatic liberties were reined in; tempo fluctuations became slighter.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Wu showcases a knack for mining meaning out of the slighter essays, about her teenage job at a quaint bakery, for example, or her idiosyncratic affection for bunnies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
The slighter, swifter Sam Simmonds starts at eight after Alex Dombrandt's brush with Covid.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2022
Instead a slighter and far more welcome figure was chasing after me.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
