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Definition of Slightingly

Slightingly
Slightingly Slight"ing*ly, adv. In a slighting manner.

Meaning of Slightingly from wikipedia

- became extinct on his death. Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, spoke slightingly of him and his mistress, Anna Maria Faulkner, including alleging that...
- Brown was beginning to be widely known, Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at Warwick Castle: The castle is enchanting; the view...
- sometimes accompanied Gray on walks, in the course of which he too spoke slightingly of his wife, possibly s****ing to turn Gray against her. Effie's surviving...
- appointed to guard him. He is taken before the governor, whose name is slightingly alluded to ("Monroe he set up for go[ver]nor"). The whole country turns...
- and other monuments. It does not seem ever to have grown, and it was slightingly called (a pun on its name) Eleinou Polis, "the wretched town". Nearby...
- Act not repealed until 1828. Sir William Coventry, his uncle, spoke slightingly of him, ridicules his vanity and wished him out of the House of Commons...
- housewife". The nickname 'Tilly' was never used to her face and referred slightingly to her utilitarian appearance. Shilling married George Naylor in September...
- its (Israel's) righteous women. A man must be careful never to speak slightingly to his wife, because women are prone to tears and sensitive to wrong...
- Rabbi Simeon taught that because Rachel treated the righteous Jacob so slightingly (as to trade away sleeping with him for some mandrakes, as reported in...
- inoculation as the best remedy for small-pox, and mentions vaccination slightingly.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public...