Many people want an apology from their parents and from neighbours who have slighted them.
"His [Ram's] so-called honour has been slighted.
Mr Museveni feels slighted by his former subordinate, for not showing him the respect due to an elder.The mood at the meeting in London was cordial, almost like a family gathering: many of the Rwandan bigwigs have Ugandan wives or relations, and vice versa.
Mr Erdogan, a tough, streetwise politician, felt slighted last year when Israel attacked Gaza only days after he had met Israel's then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who assured him that Turkish-brokered peace talks between Israel and Syria would resume.
Charged first with sodomy, which carries a death sentence, they were taken to court in August and accused of the lesser crime of idleness and being vagabonds, punishable by a year in jail plus a few lashings.But angry crowds, slighted by the downgrading of the charges, attacked the defence team as it left court, and bashed cars and people.
Not only does it annul the alliteration in "The Oracle of Omaha," but a sage is also of smaller stature.With his recent accession to the title of world's richest man, Mr Buffett deserves to be slighted by his British sobriquet no longer.
New York state's attorney-general accused the stockbroker of a conflict of interest in recommending shares that it slighted in private in order to pick up investment-banking business.
Metternich, the 19th-century Austrian statesman who famously slighted Italy as a "mere geographical expression", was ambassador of a country that became an empire and then splintered into many pieces within 60 years of his death.
Poles felt slighted, even though the system's replacement turned out to be bigger and better.
This made some of them squirm, since Mr Lott slighted the governors this time last year.
Having felt personally slighted when Israel launched its Gaza war just when he was trying to mediate between Israel and Syria, he has now thrown Turkey's support behind the Palestinians' plan to give up on the interminable "peace process" and take their quest for statehood directly to the United Nations later this month.
