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“Once, in a café, when some chatterbox spoke slightingly of Cézanne, Picasso placed his revolver on the marble tabletop and said, ‘One word more and I’ll shoot.’

It was as though she had directly insulted me by speaking so slightingly of herself.

Some people in the dementia field believe that to think of the disease as a terrible harm is to think slightingly of people who are living with it.

In a preface, Erasmus speaks slightingly of the Adagiorum Collectanea, with that affectation from which few authors are free, as a little collection carelessly made.

Pratt's work is often spoken of slightingly, and does not generally receive the commendation it deserves.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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