slighting

How To Use slighting In A Sentence

• If he is truly "gaslighting" you then he is not following the Christian guidelines of a marriage.
• A nephew of the poet Desportes, Regnier was loyal to his uncle's fame and to the memory of the Pléiade; if Malherbe spoke slightingly of Desportes, and cast aside the tradition of the school of Ronsard, the retort was speedy and telling against the arrogant reformer, tyrant of words and syllables, all whose achievement amounted to no more than _proser de la rime et rimer de la prose_. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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• They include a close, often bemused knowledge of one's fellow villagers, and linguistic expedients such as giving slighting nicknames, telling humorous anecdotes, and composing satirical ballads.
• 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. Louis Bayard - An interview with author
• But, Iris is realizing, this is their way of slighting their own anxiety. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
• You have plenty of in-principle reasons to officially cool things off with him - that is, none is personally slighting or insulting.
• The antipathy of the Yankee stars was allegedly touched off by a slighting remark Gehrig's mother made about the way Mrs Ruth dressed their daughter.
• This idiosyncrasy was well known to his friends, who, whenever things became a little dull, were accustomed to make slighting remarks on Akiyama's inefficiency as a "death-dealer."
• The slighting bequest of his "second-best bed" was added later.