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Insulting (someone) by inattention
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slighting
Word definitions for slighting in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slighting \Slight"ing\, a. Characterized by neglect or disregard.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling , deprecating , deprecative , deprecatory , depreciative , depreciatory ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slighting is the deliberate destruction, partial or complete, of a fortification without opposition, to render it unusable as a fortress. Sometimes, such as during the Wars of Scottish Independence and the English Civil War , slighting is carried out on ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
In the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative n. 1 The act of giving a slight or snu 2 (cx military English) The full or partial demolition of a fortification, rendering it no longer defensible. vb. (present participle of slight English)
Usage examples of slighting.
Notwithstanding the slighting manner in which he had spoken of Arundel, and the displeasure of Spikeman at the favor which he showed the young man, his conduct toward him remained unchanged.
There was balm to Elaine in this reflection, yet it did not wholly suffice to drive out the feeling of pique which Comus had called into being by his slighting view of her as a convenient cash supply in moments of emergency.
Uwen, trading Liss for Gia again, looked well content, a man with an old friend and a new and trying to assure one of his affection without slighting the other: all at once it Unfolded what Uwen was doing, and how he loved both, but Gia more, the other being all to discover.
And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens -- there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
He'd have to look into this, even if it required slighting his work a bit as project leader.