SLIGHTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slighting mean? 

• SLIGHTING (adjective)
  The adjective SLIGHTING has 1 sense:

1. tending to diminish or disparage

  Familiarity information: SLIGHTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIGHTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to diminish or disparage

Synonyms:

belittling; deprecating; deprecative; deprecatory; depreciative; depreciatory; slighting

Context example:

a slighting remark

Similar:

uncomplimentary (tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage)

 Context examples 

"How dare you say so, when he's got both his eyes? And very handsome ones they are, too," cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about her friend.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had never considered herself as entitled to reward for not slighting an old friend like Mrs Smith, but here was a reward indeed springing from it!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I am sure nobody ought to be, or can be, a greater advocate for matrimony than I am; and if it had not been for the misery of her leaving Hartfield, I should never have thought of Miss Taylor but as the most fortunate woman in the world; and as to slighting Mr. Weston, that excellent Mr. Weston, I think there is nothing he does not deserve.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In hastily forming and giving his opinion of other people, in sacrificing general politeness to the enjoyment of undivided attention where his heart was engaged, and in slighting too easily the forms of worldly propriety, he displayed a want of caution which Elinor could not approve, in spite of all that he and Marianne could say in its support.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She had not deserved it; she had often been negligent or perverse, slighting his advice, or even wilfully opposing him, insensible of half his merits, and quarrelling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own—but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with an endeavour to improve her, and an anxiety for her doing right, which no other creature had at all shared.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)