Sentence examples for was slighted from inspiring English sources
adjective
Small amount, gentle, or weak; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
- A slight (i.e. feeble) effort
On Tuesday, he was slighted for a quarterback who has thrown seven career passes.
Freud, for his part, believes that Elisabeth was slighted because of Murdoch's preference for his sons.
"India is increasingly becoming a country where any group's claim that it was slighted, however baseless, is a justification for censorship," he writes.
The Duma was slighted, and voluntary patriotic organizations were hampered in their efforts; the gulf between the ruling group and public opinion grew steadily wider.
India is increasingly becoming a country where any group's claim that it was slighted, however baseless, is a justification for censorship.
But Mr. Hartzog ruffled feathers during President Richard M. Nixon's administration, and was fired when a Nixon friend was slighted by a parks official.
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.
