Sentence examples for is slighted from inspiring English sources

When the irrational is slighted, the unreasonable takes its place.

When 'story' becomes a polite way of saying 'workable slice of novel that didn't happen', the smaller form is slighted.

At Chernobyl, for example, maintenance is slighted and employees have often had to wait months for their paychecks.

He dances big, filling the stage like a sudden gust of breeze, but no detail or nuance is slighted.

"How lonely and unnatural man is and how deep and well-concealed are his confusions" — no wonder Cheever's fiction is slighted in academia while Fitzgerald's collegiate romanticism is assigned.

A meek housewife is able to challenge her husband after seeing a three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old bonsai; a retired judge is slighted by a fast-food worker, and almost ends a lifelong friendship as a result.

Girardi is accustomed to being slighted.

Ergo: he is unhappy at being slighted.

But no one wants to be slighted.

Or from the incidence of being slighted.

Mullen is slight and wiry.