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• r  in a disparaging manner

• He was only supposed to refer slightingly to Roosevelt as "Junior.
• German critics stayed away from Bayreuth, spoke slightingly of it, or worse, ignored it completely.
• It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might be .

• disparagingly