That was politically wise, since it avoided slighting advocates for any particular dialect.
Mr Brown's purpose, it seems, was to make sections of the party cross with Mr Blair for slighting him.
At Qābūs's court, al-Bīrūnī met the famous philosopher-scientist Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and exchanged with him a philosophical correspondence that did not lack jealousies and slighting.
He had resigned his commission in October 1754 in resentment of the slighting treatment and underpayment of colonial officers and particularly because of an untactful order of the British war office that provincial officers of whatever rank would be subordinate to any officer holding the king's commission.
I'm not slighting Pete by saying that".
The conversation became heated, however, when Mr Rundstrom began to feel that Mr Whitworth was slighting him.
In a civil suit, she accused the producer, whom she has worked with since she was 17, of drugging and raping her as well as slighting her appearance, contributing to her bulimia; Dr. Luke, meanwhile, has filed a countersuit and denies everything.
Since Trump began slighting Mexican immigrants and then doubled down with proposals for mass deportations and stripping citizenship from illegal immigrants' children, he has come to loom in the Mexican imagination as a gringo bogeyman.
Miles says he is not aware of slighting anyone.
Exiene m.c.s 3 or 4 shows a night and is a bit of a stage mother, slighting certain comics while showing attention upon his protégés.
That Times writer who, in 1882, called Edison's illumination of New York "satisfactory" may have had a motive for downplaying the story — slighting the much-puffed Edison, maybe — but it's more likely that he just didn't think electric lamps were really all that different from gas ones.
