Slighting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLIGHTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SLIGHT, to treat with disregard
• insult (someone) by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention
• raze or destroy (a fortification)
NOUN:
• an insult caused by a failure to show someone proper respect or attention
ADJECTIVE:
• small in degree; inconsiderable
• (especially of a creative work) not profound or substantial; rather trivial or superficial
• (of a person or their build) not sturdy; thin or slender
• characteristic of a slight
• Characterized by neglect or disregard.
• tending to diminish or disparage

Words related to SLIGHTING

slight10 slighted13 slightingly19 slights11

Words that contain SLIGHTING

mislighting18 slightingly19 gaslighting17

How to use SLIGHTING in a sentence

• They crossed the Simplon, and proceeded by the Lago Maggiore to Milan, admiring the pass, but slighting the somewhat hothouse beauties of the Borromean Islands.
• At first she could not believe they were wilfully slighting her.
• Very profound was the effect of his words upon me, though, I think, I used to make a point of slighting them.
• Slighting remarks were heard from Miss Castlevaine and a few others, but in almost any case they were to be expected.
• Now I understood her slighting attitude towards my knowledge of birds.
• He resented slighting observations concerning them, as though insults offered to personal friends who could not answer for themselves.
• And she stood there before him, for a little, with beauty as it were heightened by resentful reproach of the slighting of itself, and the disregard of its tried affection.
• Lavilette and his friends, to make slighting reference to the accounts of the Society in question.
• The fact of anything being out of order, forms no excuse for slighting the process.
• One easygoing housekeeper used to say that, in her opinion, there was a genius in slighting.
• This I cannot do by ignoring it, or slighting it, or praising it, or denying it.
• Oh! my dear, I am worse than a ballet-dancer! If you knew what joy that slighting remark gave me! I have pointed out to Felipe that she does not speak French correctly.
• Should any of my allusions to religious subjects and to religious workers be thought slighting, I trust my attitude towards Christianity itself will not be questioned.
• Far be it from us to write in an apparently slighting manner of what we so greatly value as good tracts, when we can find them.
• And none could doubt that Gates knew it and encouraged it, for he had publicly spoken of Schuyler in slighting and contemptuous terms.
• A slight done him was slighting his sovereign Master.
• I write to show you that I am incapable of slighting even the minutest requests of an absent and distant friend.
• It is true that rival tribes gloried in belonging to different denominations, and in slighting converts belonging to other churches.
• He was a mere memory to me, and was put into the book with some slighting remarks which the real Jeems did not deserve.
• Claudius, I will not permit you to use any slighting words about him.
• The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it.

Similar words containing SLIGHT without suffix ing

slight10 slights11 gaslight13 mislight14 slighted13 slighter12 slightly15 gaslights14 mislights15 slighters13 slightest13 slightish16 crosslight16 mislighted17 slightness14 gaslighted16 crosslights17 mislighting18 slightingly19 gaslighting17 slightnesses16

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