Synonyms for slighting

Grammar : Adj

Spell : slahy-ting

Phonetic Transcription : ˈslaɪ tɪŋ

Définition of slighting

Origin : 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].

adj abusive

Example sentences :

Let the world be as critical or slighting as it may, these things are successes.
Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever

He repelled the suggestion by a slighting gesture of the hand.
Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad

He must have seen the woman—but he is angry with me, for—for—slighting him—as he thinks—but he was wrong.
Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby

And when we were some distance away he made a slighting remark about Millie.
Extract from : « The Jucklins » by Opie Read

I did wrong in slighting your injunction, and suffering Lilian to do so.
Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"You do not at all understand it yet," said Felbeck, with a slighting laugh.
Extract from : « The Quest » by Frederik van Eeden

After all, we have only followed the custom of the place in slighting the cathedral.
Extract from : « From Gretna Green to Land's End » by Katharine Lee Bates

Galatea, therefore, is for ever slighting the sculptor's affection.
Extract from : « A Book of Burlesque » by Willam Davenport Adams

I told them they should take heed of slighting the mercies of God.
Extract from : « George Fox » by George Fox

In that case his discontent may take itself out in slighting his task and wasting your time and lengthening his bill.
Extract from : « Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross » by John Huston Finley

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