slighting

Example Sentences

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Slighting 400,000 retired delivery drivers and truckers wasn’t her goal when she became the only Quad-Cities lawmaker to back the last-minute funding plan, she said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 18, 2016

Slighting remarks were heard from Miss Castlevaine and a few others, but in almost any case they were to be expected.

From Polly and the Princess by Dowd, Emma C.

Slighting custom and tradition, she lost no opportunity to appear in public.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

Ere the night ended, I had blushed to see Slighting regards cast on my father's child, And hear her name and his tossed lightly round.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

Think deeply then, O man, how great thou art; Pay thyself homage with a trembling heart; What angels guard, no longer dare neglect, Slighting thyself, affront not God's respect.

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward