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slighted

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slight  (slt)
adj. slight·er, slight·est
1. Small in size, degree, or amount: a slight tilt; a slight surplus.
2. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail: a slight foundation; slight evidence.
3. Of small importance or consideration; trifling: slight matters.
4. Small and slender in build or construction; delicate.
tr.v. slight·ed, slight·ing, slights
1. To treat as of small importance; make light of.
2. To treat with discourteous reserve or inattention.
3. To do negligently or thoughtlessly; scant.
n.
1. The act or an instance of slighting.
2. A deliberate discourtesy; a snub: "It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights" (Elizabeth Kenny).

[Middle English, slender, smooth, possibly of Scandinavian origin; see lei- in Indo-European roots.]

slightness n.
Translations
slighted [ˈslaɪtɪd] adjoffeso/a
to feel slighted → sentirsi offeso/a
slighted [ˈslaɪtɪd] adjoffeso/a
to feel slighted → sentirsi offeso/a


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Kitty was not married, but ill, and ill from love for a man who had slighted her.
Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.
Instead of it even-- as a woman reads another--she could see what I myself saw: his derision, his amusement, his contempt for the breakdown of my resignation at being left alone and for the fine machinery I had set in motion to attract his attention to my slighted charms.
 
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