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slightingadjective intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or valueslighting remarks about the general lack of musical talent among the contestants belittling, contemptuous, decrying, degrading, demeaning, denigrative, denigratory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disdainful, disparaging, pejorative, scornful, uncomplimentary aspersing, calumnious, defamatory, insulting, libelous(or libellous), maligning, slandering, slanderous, vilifyingabusive, opprobrious, scurrilouscatty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, unkind, virulentcritical, denunciative, denunciatoryacrimonious, bitter, envious, jaundiced, jealous, rancorous, resentfulacrid, caustic, scathing, venomous commendatory, complimentary, laudative, laudatory admiring, adulatory, applauding, approving, friendly, positiveappreciative, respectfulkind, kindhearted, kindly, sympathetic, unmalicious, warm, warmhearted slightingverbpresent participle of slightto cause hurt feelings or deep resentment inthe dancers felt slighted by the harsh comments of the judges affronting, disrespecting, dissing(slang), insulting, offending, outraging, slapping, wounding cutting, snubbingdispleasing, distressing, disturbing, hurting, miffing, paining, troubling, upsettingjeering, mocking, ridiculing, sneering (at), tauntingdefaming, disparaging, libeling(or libelling), maligning, reviling, slandering, slurring, smearingoppressing, persecuting, tormenting, torturing acclaiming, applauding, approving, hailingcommending, complimenting, eulogizing, praisingadulating, flattering, sweet-talkingexalting, glorifying, honoringdelighting, gratifying, pleasing, satisfying to deliberately ignore or treat rudelyas a temp worker, she often feels slighted by the people she has to work with cold-shouldering, cutting, high-hatting, snubbing, stiff-arming, stiffing isolating, ostracizingbrushing (aside or off), disdaining, rebuffing, rejecting, repelling, repulsing, scorning, spurningdisregarding, forgetting, neglecting, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, shrugging off to show contempt formusic critics who slight any style of music that doesn't fit their personal taste contemning, disdaining, disrespecting, dissing(slang), high-hatting, looking down (on or upon), scorning, sniffing (at), snooting, snubbing scoutingabhorring, abominating, despising, detesting, execrating, hating, loathingbelittling, deploring, deprecating, disparagingdisapproving (of), discountenancing, disfavoring, frowning (on or upon) looking down one's nose (at), sneezing at, thumbing one's nose (at), walking over honoring, respecting cherishing, prizing, treasuring, valuingadmiring, esteeming, lionizinghallowing, revering, venerating, worshipping(also worshiping)accepting, appreciating, approving (of), caring (for), countenancing, favoring, OK'ing(or okaying), subscribing (to) to fail to give proper attention toslighted several major authors in her survey of 20th-century fiction bypassing, disregarding, forgetting, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, slurring (over) failingmissing, omittingbrushing (aside or off), rejecting, shrugging off, sloughing (off)also sluffing (off)disdaining, pooh-poohing(also poohing), scorningscanting, skimping attending (to), heeding, minding, regarding, tending (to) appreciating, cherishing, prizing, treasuring, valuingcultivating, fostering, nursing, nurturingpamperingrememberinglistening (to), watchingfollowing, marking, noticing, noting, observing, remarking in 1632 |