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A deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
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slight
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Word definitions for slight in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slight \Slight\, adv. Slightly. [Obs. or Poetic] Think not so slight of glory. --Milton.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) [syn: rebuff ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "small amount or weight," from slight (v.). Meaning "act of intentional neglect or ignoring out of displeasure or contempt" is from 1701, probably via 17c. phrase make a slight of (1610s).
Usage examples of slight.
And although, as has been said, a person who is found to be suspected in this way is not to be branded as a heretic, yet he must undergo a canonical purgation, or he must be caused to pronounce a solemn abjuration as in the case of one convicted of a slight heresy.
A mosquito bite, a cut, or the slightest abrasion, serves for lodgment of the poison with which the air seems to be filled.
The abutments also must be strong enough to take safely the thrust of the weighted arch, as the slightest movement in these supports will cause deflection and failure.
He still kept his army in Spain, and this proceeding determined Portugal to accede to some slight alterations in the first treaty.
Slight imperfections in the match were negotiated by a jostling crowd of donor or acceptor molecules.
To separate these, ammonia is added till the solution is alkaline, and then acetic acid in slight excess.
He had been with Mwynwen frequently, either in his own chambers or her house, resting and leaching out of his body the subliminal aches and slight sickness that extended exposure to iron caused .
Carthage was condemned to pay within the term of fifty years, were a slight acknowledgment of the superiority of Rome, and cannot bear the least proportion with the taxes afterwards raised both on the lands and on the persons of the inhabitants, when the fertile coast of Africa was reduced into a province.
Othman emperor still accepts from Egypt a slight acknowledgment of tribute and subjection.
It is not easy, however, to induce a child to use an Acousticon at all times, whereas an adult will take the time and trouble necessary to become accustomed to the instrument, and will put up with the slight inconveniences inseparable from its use.
Sauveur, without the slightest opposition from the venerable priest, who, far from sharing the anti-christain intolerancy of the clergy in general, said that her profession as an actress had not hindered her from being a good Christian, and that the earth was the common mother of all human beings, as Jesus Christ had been the Saviour of all mankind.
The hair was so acutely sensitive that the slightest touch occasioned severe pain at the roots.
It was estimated that before the adjournment of Congress more than a thousand negroes and many white Unionists had been murdered in the South, without even the slightest attempt at prosecuting the murderers.
He amused me with the enumeration of all her adorable qualities, and of all the cruelties she was practising upon him, for, although she received him at all hours, she repulsed him harshly whenever he tried to steal the slightest favour.
I must even confess that I adore women, and that I have not the slightest idea of depriving myself of the most delightful of all pleasures.