Sentence examples for make slighting remarks from inspiring English sources

And I have not heard people make slighting remarks about others, not even as a joke.

Their paper had made slighting remarks about such people, showing more than a hint of molecular triumphalism.

For a time it appeared that his name would be Arthur Hays Sulzberger Jr. (Adolph Ochs had made a slighting remark about how wrinkled the baby looked at the hospital), and his name originally appeared that way on the birth certificate, but soon it was officially changed to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, making him a true son of The Times.

In a world of alpha dogs (bullies at skating rinks, high school girls making slighting comments) we became the smart alecks, the sidekicks, the class clowns.

His employers made it clear that they didn't value him - by breaking their word to him, abandoning him to face a media onslaught and making slighting references to him as a "middle-ranking official".

Whatever the literal truth of her slighting remark, I must have concluded at a vulnerable age that I owed my existence more to a shore dinner than to my dear father.

At this stage, we should make two remarks.

You don't make flippant remarks.

Let us first make some remarks.

We make concluding remarks in Sect. 4.

We make two remarks.