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slighting

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verb

present participle of slight
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of slighting
Verb
And now, fans are listening to soul remixes and slighting hip-hop’s resonance. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slighting
Adjective
  • To educate all of them in similar ways is insulting, and silly.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Perkins said the drink bore the insulting message.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The offending image, this time, was a more recent painting that reimagined the map of India as a naked woman on her knees, city names marking her body.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Is the streamer afraid of offending hate groups by depicting them as hateful and/or groups?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rather than isolating elders to a clinical setting, Assisted Living Magazine encourages environments where leisure, purpose, and community are part of everyone’s daily life.
    Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • During the dictatorships after World War II, the natural barrier of the Accursed Mountains was fortified, set about with land mines, and patrolled, effectively isolating the stronghold of Albania from the rest of the world.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Over the summer the FDA convened a panel on the safety of certain antidepressants in pregnancy that tried to cast doubt on this research, ignoring the real harms of not treating depression or anxiety for pregnant people themselves and for their fetuses.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But the writers, like Noah and Joanne, are ignoring that fundamental fork in the road in favor of inane high jinks from the couple and their increasingly irksome friends and family.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And there would be lots of soldiers around, either Army or National Guard, and the people who were civilians would be young people, very disparaging about the military.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The 2023 Economic Report Of The President published in March of 2023 was relatively disparaging of cryptoassets and DLTs.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Others noted the couple who set the no-children boundary shouldn't feel guilty whatsoever for rejecting a guest's request for an exception.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, throughout the world there’s a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • From disrespecting local customs to getting pickpocketed, to forgetting to reapply sunscreen to overpacking, European tour guides have truly seen it all.
    Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The situation unfolded earlier this week when TikToker Bookie Woodz posted a now-controversial clip, accusing Ayesha of craving male attention and subtly disrespecting her husband in the process.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Their latest controversy comes a day after Bell admitted to forgetting their wedding anniversary on the red carpet.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To be useful, our memories are dynamic rather than static, which is why forgetting is an active process, a feature and not a bug.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Slighting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slighting. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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