slighting
11slighting — adjective tending to diminish or disparage belittling comments managed a deprecating smile at the compliment deprecatory remarks about the book a slighting remark • Syn: ↑belittling, ↑deprecating, ↑deprecative, ↑ …
12slighting language — index disparagement Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
13slighting — slightingly, adv. /sluy ting/, adj. derogatory and disparaging; belittling. [1605 15; SLIGHT + ING2] * * * …
14slighting — adjective In the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative …
15slighting — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abusive, derisive, maligning; see derogatory , opprobrious 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Tending or intending to belittle: deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory,… …
16slighting — slaɪt n. insult, snub, indignity, act or word which expresses contempt or disrespect v. treat with indifference, ignore; treat with disdain, disparage, snub, insult, affront adj. small; light, frail, delicate; slender, slim; lacking substance;… …
17Slighting — Destruction of (captured enemy) fortifications, to prevent their future use (by enemies). Widespread after the English Civil War. Hemyock Castle was slighted at this time, reputedly on the orders of King Charles II …
18slighting — adj 1. offensive, insulting, Archaic. affrontive, disparaging, denouncing, derogatory, depreciating; disdainful, contemptuous, contemning, contemnible, supercilious, contumelious, scouting, flouting; scornful, derisive, jeering, ridiculing,… …
19slighting — slight•ing [[t]ˈslaɪ tɪŋ[/t]] adj. derogatory and disparaging; belittling • Etymology: 1605–15 slight′ing•ly, adv …
20slighting — /ˈslaɪtɪŋ/ (say sluyting) adjective derogatory; disparaging. –slightingly, adverb …
