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is slighting
adjective
Small amount, gentle, or weak; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
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Even when Picasso moved decisively away from descriptive naturalism, there is never any sense that he is slighting his human subjects.
She has real, true feelings and is self-actualized enough to know when she is slighting someone and when she has been slighted.
In addition, local leaders say Albany, which gives New Rochelle a disproportionately low amount of supplemental and per capita state aid -- the only two kinds of state money that can be used for operating expenses -- is slighting them.
Your paper is slighting the very people they should be seeking to serve, and your kowtowing to the Sulzbergers on this is both simple-minded and disingenuous of you.
A spokesman for Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va)., who chaired a House Katrina investigation, said the White House is slighting Congress and ignoring the political toll of Brown's incompetence and ties to GOP cronies. "Davis hopes the White House isn't saying they don't understand the need for minimal qualifications, or that they might bypass them.
That – depending on age or maturity or your feelings about men's rights activism – some men believe a woman is slighting them by not being into it when they suddenly announce they want to start kissing and doing hand stuff instead of just hanging out with each other.
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Girardi is accustomed to being slighted.
Ergo: he is unhappy at being slighted.
But no one wants to be slighted.
All have been slighted before.
Little people have been slighted.
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