slighting
s lahy ting
- v pay no attention to, disrespect
- s tending to diminish or disparage
a slighting remark
- Part 2, alas, goes astray, slighting environmental and social issues for mundane family melodrama.
- That slighting reference to constitutional rights irritated a number of blacks and scarcely placated the supporters of Israel.
- Virtually no one wants to jostle him out of fear that his popularity--and any slighting of his person--could prove explosive.