slighting

How To Use slighting In A Sentence

• My mother was convinced they were slighting us because you were mad at me!
• It shows how support for old clients can be profitable and provides advice on how to support them without slighting new clients.
• The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. Persuasion
• He did not spend time slighting the enemy, but commenced to work on the minds and hearts of the British people.
• They can be excessive in their devotions to Carlyle and Henry James and their denunciations can at times be annoying in slighting great writers such as Thackeray and Jane Austen.
• Through metaphor Thoreau renders the self and nature in total interrelationship without slighting either half of the duality.
• Joey's management company, afraid that the film was slighting their dead client for Johnny, demanded that the film-makers find more interview footage of Joey before okaying the final cut.
• A husband who tells his wife that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder when she becomes frustrated because she is consistently being told that things that were said or done didn't happen, is gaslighting his wife.
• Remember that this was a period of time when any remark that might be deemed slighting or offensive could lead to a duel.
• I should have put it better, because I have absolutely no intention of slighting these kind people: they were really kind and good hearted. TESTIMONIES