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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.
  • Sidesplittingly, the free on line poker is far soughingly from decasyllabic langsat that they elemi not yet pragmatical dreyfus that shrublet slighting is, accommodatingly, staggeringly. Rational Review
  • 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
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  • 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.
  • Am I expiating the crime of slighting my father so much?
  • One is not slighting her in saying that she comes close to, but does not equal, the unsurpassable Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
  • Some came in quest of physical health, and Augustine was never slighting about those who did so, though the catechists should teach them that religion had higher ends.
  • In a broadcast in October 1939 Daladier specifically declared that this was not a war against Fascism; the censors were instructed to bar any slighting references to Mussolini.
  • Of course, Durkheim did not directly transpose this rather slighting view of economic pursuits from the context of preliterate, tribal existence to that of more advanced societies.
  • It seems she is with child, and the King says he did not get it: with that she made a slighting "puh" with her mouth, and went out of the house, and never come in again till the King went to Sir Daniel Harvy's to pray her; and so she is come to-day, when one would think his mind should be full of some other cares, having but this morning broken up such a Parliament, with so much discontent, and so many wants upon him, and but yesterday heard such a sermon against adultery. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 55: July 1667
  • There are the slighting, sneering references to the "muscular Christianity" of Tony Blair, whom the original presents as " Bush's Iraq soulmate ".
  • The determinist will speak slightingly of the “sub - jective character” of personal experience and its ex - pressions, the libertarian of the “abstract and diagram - matic character” of causality-constructions; while the agnostic will cite the agelong inconclusiveness of the debate between the two other parties, and the inade - quacy of language as such to the nature of things. FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY
  • It discusses the advantage and defect of the short sighting alignment. Some problems of the arrangement of short slighting alignment are also pointed out.
  • Lesser-used sounds slighting!
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  • I do not mean those analogies to be either pejorative or slighting; abused lovers and children deserve better.
  • There has been mischief done by slighting criticism and by inconsiderate words.
  • They continue to invite his ex-wife over, while slighting my mother.
  • Am I expiating the crime of slighting my father so much?
  • It shows how support for old clients can be profitable and provides advice on how to support them without slighting new clients.
  • The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. Persuasion
  • He did not spend time slighting the enemy, but commenced to work on the minds and hearts of the British people.
  • They can be excessive in their devotions to Carlyle and Henry James and their denunciations can at times be annoying in slighting great writers such as Thackeray and Jane Austen.
  • Through metaphor Thoreau renders the self and nature in total interrelationship without slighting either half of the duality.
  • Joey's management company, afraid that the film was slighting their dead client for Johnny, demanded that the film-makers find more interview footage of Joey before okaying the final cut.
  • A husband who tells his wife that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder when she becomes frustrated because she is consistently being told that things that were said or done didn't happen, is gaslighting his wife.
  • Remember that this was a period of time when any remark that might be deemed slighting or offensive could lead to a duel.
  • I should have put it better, because I have absolutely no intention of slighting these kind people: they were really kind and good hearted. TESTIMONIES
  • Of course, Durkheim did not directly transpose this rather slighting view of economic pursuits from the context of preliterate, tribal existence to that of more advanced societies.
  • Artfully, I must confess, I mentioned that The Herald of the same day had spoken warmly about some slighting remark concerning Holmes made in the House the previous night.
  • My mother was convinced they were slighting us because you were mad at me!
  • The slighting references to "bad science," which appear in Saunders's article, only betray a rather undergraduate notion of what science is and how it is done.
  • I'm pretty sure a coworker is gaslighting me.
  • In any case, however, where it shall be found contumaciously slighting credibility, and refusing to be reduced to anything like probable fact, we shall beg that we may meet with candid readers, and such as will receive with indulgence the stories of antiquity. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • He had spoken slightingly of women's education in general, and had said that Hannah, Anna's English protegee, had not the slightest need to know anything of physics.
  • After seeking to invalidate most of the charges, the Rabbis turned to the most important point, and acknowledged that the Talmud, contained slighting references to a certain Jesus.
  • Never let your tongue say a slighting word of a colleague.
  • Now it appears that we stack our refusal to break off talk with Bingtown on top of the Prince's slighting of the Narcheska. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Some who have sent their sons to study geoponics at the Institutions in which instruction is given, have had good cause to speak slightingly of the advantages accruing from the expense of educating the rising generation in the modern practice of agriculture.
  • I've also realized she's been gaslighting me for months now; causing me to doubt myself and how I've handled things.
  • We've always argued, but lately she's accusing me of gaslighting her.

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