Crossword clues for slighted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slight \Slight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slighted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slighting.]
To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to
make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.
--Milton.
The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies.
--Cowper.
To slight off, to treat slightingly; to drive off; to
remove. [R.] -- To slight over, to run over in haste; to
perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight
over a theme. ``They will but slight it over.''
--Bacon.
Syn: To neglect; disregard; disdain; scorn.
Usage: Slight, Neglect. To slight is stronger than to neglect. We may neglect a duty or person from inconsiderateness, or from being over-occupied in other concerns. To slight is always a positive and intentional act, resulting from feelings of dislike or contempt. We ought to put a kind construction on what appears neglect on the part of a friend; but when he slights us, it is obvious that he is our friend no longer.
Beware . . . lest the like befall . . .
If they transgress and slight that sole command.
--Milton.
This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace,
Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: slight)
Usage examples of "slighted".
It worried me that he might have felt I slighted him by not being a part of the welcome he was certainly due.
None of them felt slighted that their escort was only a graduate student and not, as it should have been, one of the faculty.
But before Tia could feel slighted or annoyed with her, the CenCom operator came back on.
It was very lucky, for I would not have had poor James think himself slighted upon any account.
Depend upon it, he would not like to have his charade slighted, much better than his passion.
So the victim was not Sharpe, but the French, yet de Maquerre's treachery had still abandoned Sharpe to this fate in a slighted fortress.
This left Civil duty-bound to escort his slighted mother as they followed their esteemed guest and his prey into the dining hall.
And even more insidious, the gossip that the bloodlines of Duke Shemshy had been slighted, for the Prince had shown an obvious interest in Lady Vance until his lady mother had crushed it.
Even if I’d known my body had been cleared of scars, I would not have suspected that Chade would feel slighted over some imagined secret.
And Spiro felt slighted, for he was the one who had inherited his father's killing eye.
Aye, and I remember your silly model of Tur-gosheim, its spires and manses: how you would hurl your so-called spells and imprecations against the houses of your betters when you thought that they had slighted you.
He was in no mood to appreciate Sharpe's tact, instead he felt slighted and diminished by the Rifleman's competence.