KURTZ: So why are you slighting poor Mr. Schwarzenegger?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003] Reference
And is the press still slighting the "Terminator's" rivals?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003] Reference
There are three kinds of slighting -- contempt, spite, and insolence. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Rhetoric - Selected Moments] Reference
Teach your tongue the trick of slighting, though 'tis faithful to the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
"That way they will not be slighted, but will feel they are slighting you.". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
It was princely gratitude, wasn't it, in spite of the slighting way in which. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
Prevents slighting of invisible portions of the target for more visible parts. From Wordnik.com. [Military Instructors Manual] Reference
Not one slighting or detrimental comment against either herself or Tom came to her ears. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear, and raging came into Samaria. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
I'll forgive your slighting remarks about me, and give you the vacant place on the front seat. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
But slighting these Rakshasas, that mighty one of dreadful prowess plunged (farther and farther). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Who has not been struck with the slighting manner in which Sir Walter describes his heroines 'charms?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
"I don't know how you can bear to speak of him in that slighting manner," she went on, almost passionately. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Either inadvertently, or by design, he referred in slighting tones to the part played at this meeting by the. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
The new group says it is in favor of including the work of minorities and women without slighting the classics. From Wordnik.com. [Showing Its Age] Reference
Never mind the coldness, the indifference, the slighting disparagements, for bye-and-bye will come the harvest. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
It requires slighting subordinate, unimportant parts, so that one point is made and one total impression given. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
She did not add that the newspaper girl's half slighting remarks about Mabel Ashe still rankled in her loyal soul. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Princeton, he never allowed the duties of one sphere of labor to be an excuse for slighting the other sphere of labor. From Wordnik.com. [Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn] Reference
I frightened them, filled with wrath, referring to some great fear (as the consequence of their slighting my message). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
When women's groups complained that Clinton was slighting female candidates, Gore was the conduit for their complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Gore's World] Reference
But he is so rude to me, so slighting of my talents, that when he suffers some embarrassment at a child's hands, I chuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Updike in Springfield: Author Recalling His Appearance on <i>The Simpsons</i>] Reference
Western man of to-day he also is impatient of priestly control, and is apt to say slighting things of his spiritual leaders. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
I have never once heard any member of our court say something slighting or denigrating of another justice, not even as a joke. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2005] Reference
The crowd was in the humor for hanging to the limb of the first convenient tree any one who dared to make a slighting suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
And yet, by a very human touch, he is represented as furiously resenting any slighting allusion, by any one else, to his stature. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
He was a chap who thought very well indeed of himself and his accomplishments, and held a somewhat slighting estimation of others. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
And thenceforward he persevered in slighting upon all occasions, and even in private conversation, this divine worship of himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
He lumps together the Canadian, the South African, the Australian, and the New Zealander under the slighting category of "colonials.". From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
I was feeling awfully cross at you girls just then, because he made me believe that you were slighting me and leaving me out of things. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
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