Sentence examples for was slighting 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
The conversation became heated, however, when Mr Rundstrom began to feel that Mr Whitworth was slighting him.
Rather than analyze Maddux's reluctance to pitch and wonder whether he was slighting them, the Mets reacted to the switch properly.
In his steadier moments, the father was hugely proud of his eldest son, attending all his games, forecasting a great future for him and seeming not to notice that he was slighting his next in line, Tom, who was not an athlete.
Not surprisingly, the wrenching changes drew resistance, with many scientists complaining that Eisenberger was slighting traditional areas like petrology and rushing headlong into realms such as the economics of global climate change (Science, 22 May 1998, p. 1182).
Girardi is accustomed to being slighted.
Ergo: he is unhappy at being slighted.
But no one wants to be slighted.
Or from the incidence of being slighted.
But overall the impact was slight.
But the firms' exposure was slight.
