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Definition of Slightingly
1. Adverb. In a disparaging manner. "These mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'"
Definition of Slightingly
1. adv. In a slighting manner.
Definition of Slightingly
1. Adverb. (archaic) in a slighting manner, belittlingly ¹
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Definition of Slightingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slightingly
Literary usage of Slightingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To discourage the proposal ; to speak of it slightingly. Water. '/'.'< coldest
water known. .... slightingly ..."
2. Lectures on Art, and Poems by Washington Allston (1850)
"TO A LADY, WHO SPOKE slightingly OF POETS. O, CENSURE not the Poet's art, Nor
think it chills the feeling heart To love the gentle Muses. ..."
3. Lectures on Art, and Poems by Washington Allston (1850)
"TO A LADY, WHO SPOKE slightingly OF POETS. O, CENSURE not the Poet's art, Nor
think it chills the feeling heart To love the gentle Muses. ..."
4. The Sylphs of the Seasons: With Other Poems by Washington Allston (1813)
"... Who spoke slightingly of Poets. OH, censure not the Poet's art, Nor think it
chilis the feeling heart To love the gentle Muses. ..."
5. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1905)
"... speaks somewhat slightingly of Drake's great voyage, and offers no excuse for
omitting the raids on the ..."
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