slighting

Example Sentences

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I’d thought I was getting back at her for slighting me.

From Literature

Keller and Knight were rewarded with proximity to Storrie and the best punchlines, but neither Quinn nor Jack Hughes had to indicate in any way that they had joined America’s president in slighting them.

From Salon

But he wasn’t slighting Griffin’s dynamic rookie season.

From Washington Post

They also accuse her of slighting her teachers, who helped her gain admission — after a year living in Canada with her family — to Merton College, one of the most academically rigorous of the Oxford colleges.

From New York Times

Black vultures have a massive 5 foot wing span, slighting smaller than the turkey vulture.

From Salon