Sentence examples for to slight from inspiring English sources

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to slight

adjective

Small amount, gentle, or weak; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.

  • A slight (i.e. feeble) effort

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Likelihood Limited to slight.

To slight avail, however.

It's just a way to slight the current regime".

Citizens from one place tend to slight the other.

But these gestures were brief and rhetorically designed to slight the current president by comparison.

But in their way, they, too, seem eager to slight the gulag past.

Hamilton did not want to slight the Cardinals, but his message was clear.

But, he says, variations in rooms and administration are nonexistent to slight.

Pears, if ripe, will yield to slight pressure at the stem.

This is not to slight the skill and imagination of the music.

Rodriguez later clarified through a spokesman that he was not trying to slight any Yankees teammates.

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