slighted

verboffend, insult

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verb offend, insult

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Word Origin & History

early 14c., "flat, smooth; hairless," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse slettr "smooth, sleek," from Proto-Germanic *slikhtaz (cf. Old Saxon slicht; Low German slicht "smooth, plain common;" Old English -sliht "level," attested in eorðslihtes "level with the ground;" Old Frisian sliucht "smooth, slight," Middle Dutch sleht "even, plain," Old High German sleht, Gothic slaihts "smooth"), probably from a collateral form of PIE *sleig- "to smooth, glide, be muddy," from root *(s)lei- "slimy" (see slime (n.)).

Sense evolution probably is from "smooth" (c.1300), to "slim, slender; of light texture," hence "not good or strong; insubstantial, trifling, inferior, insignificant" (early 14c.). Meaning "small in amount" is from 1520s. Sense of German cognate schlecht developed from "smooth, plain, simple" to "bad, mean, base," and as it did it was replaced in the original senses by schlicht, a back-formation from schlichten "to smooth, to plane," a derivative of schlecht in the old sense [Klein].

Example Sentences for slighted

But he admired Hester, and the more she slighted him the more he was determined to force her to like him.

I should not have a doubt of it were she slighted for any other woman in the world than her own mother.

Does he imagine that Olivia is to be slighted with impunity?

For many months she had put the subject away, but it was too big to be slighted now.

You had wooed and slighted me, yet you had made me love you, and if you were not for me I swore you should be for no other.

It swam on the water, and dived, but it was slighted by every creature because of its ugliness.

"It was Paul Hunt that she slighted, man," said Stocmar, half sneeringly.

I was outraged beyond endurance: she had slighted, he had insulted me!

You can bear to think of her, slighted for the daughter of an American tradesman.

They should not be slighted or forgotten during such a period.

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unheeded

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insulted