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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.
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  • Jim Leyland in MLB.com
    Iran is pushing forwards with its nuclear arming race while slighting the wishes of the international community which needs to protect peace and impose sanctions on Iran. Not partial and moderate sanctions. The duty is to impose paralyzing... Benjamin Netanyahu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGSB6XBHIo5Q1lhVNf0RDIkTgoG0A Ynetnews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3846573,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHghSH3eKIXKhJjeDwW0m_zMqFTfw Feb 9, 2010 91094 121176 slighting He really was a huge, huge part of the turnaround," Leyland said, "well before I got here and probably long after I'm gone. You don't want to start slighting anybody, but when the Tigers put the faces of Pudge Rodriguez and Magglio Ordonez...
  • Ric Flair in ProWrestling.com
    When asked whether or not he would have went to TNA to face Sting if he had not worked things out with WWE, Flair said, "Never. No, I wouldn't have.......... It's nothing slighting the other organization. I'm extremely loyal to the people I work...

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