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slightingly

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slight·ing  (sltng)
adj.
Conveying or constituting a slight; belittling: a slighting look.
slighting·ly adv.
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Adv.1.slightingly - in a disparaging manner; "these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'"
disparagingly
Translations
slightingly [ˈslaɪtɪŋlɪ] ADV → con desprecio
slightingly
adv speak → abschätzig, abfällig; treat → geringschätzig
slightingly [ˈslaɪtɪŋlɪ] adv → offensivamente
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He had spoken slightingly of women's education in general, and had said that Hannah, Anna's English protegee, had not the slightest need to know anything of physics.
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If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own, however.
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