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Answer for the clue "Less important ", 8 letters:
slighter
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: slight ) n. One who slights.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slight \Slight\, a. [Compar. Slighter ; superl. Slightest .] [OE. sli?t, sleght, probably from OD. slicht, slecht, simple, plain, D. slecht; akin to OFries. sliucht, G. schlecht, schlicht, OHG. sleht smooth, simple, Icel. sl?ttr smooth, Sw. sl["a]t, Goth. ...
Usage examples of slighter.
Is it anything strange that the larger and more powerful organism should diffuse a consciousness of its presence to some distance as well as the slighter and feebler one?
I cried, and my blood burned with the intense rage which a much slighter cause would have kindled from the natural fierceness of my temper.
His Australian accent was slight, and overlaid an even slighter tinge of Continental accent in his English.
The other was two or three inches shorter than Willie, and of slighter build.
It was a much shorter, slighter shadow than his own, and he lunged, without taking time to think, to catch it about the knees and bring it to earth.
The girl was taller than Ista, but still shorter and slighter than the average man, even the wiry fellows favored for couriers.
One large figure-a big man or an ork, I guessed-and one slighter, but almost as tall.
Marlowe, who was the younger by some twenty years, was rather slighter about the body, though Manderson was a man in good physical condition.
She seemed shorter and slighter, but she still had the eyes, the hair, the teeth and the nails.
I never saw, or read, of any country where religion had so strong a hold upon the women, or a slighter hold upon the men.
He was very like his elder brother, even to the eyebrows, but slighter in build and a little shorter.
Being in the heavyweight class be cast himself joyfully upon his slighter enemy, and they rolled down a flight of stairs in each others arms.
Several of his slighter and unfinished poems were inspired by these scenes, and by the companions around us.
As always in the overworld, Jaelle seemed smaller, slighter, more fragile, and Magda wondered, as she had wondered before, whether what she saw was a projection of the way Jaelle saw herself, or whether it reflected the way in which, for some reason, she had always felt protective, as if Jaelle were younger and weaker than herself.
Ferrault, who had ridden with them as far as Verella: sandy-haired, bearded, both shorter and slighter than Arcolin.