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The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
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Sleight.
verb
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To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
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To give lesser weight or importance to.
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To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
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To act negligently or carelessly.
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(of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
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To make even or level.
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To throw heedlessly.
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Small
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Of slender build
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a slight but graceful woman
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Even, smooth or level
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A slight stone
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(especially said of the swa) still; with little or no movement on the surface
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The sea was slight and calm
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Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
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Bad, of poor quality.
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Slighting; treating with disdain.
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Examples of slight in a Sentence
After a slight hesitation the door burst open with a cracking blow.
His frame was slight, his hair silvered, his smile fatherly.
There was a slight quake to her voice.
He walked with a slight limp and looked older than thirty-six.
A slight smile touched the corners of his mouth.
She smiled and nodded with a slight blush.
He walked with a slight limp and his gaunt frame was gangly.
Gabriel put the gems away and looked up to see her slight frame standing beside the sarcophagus.
Alpatych made a slight movement.
A slight smile drew up one side of Lishana's mouth, and Kiera felt the urge to smile as well.
Then she added, her slight smile fading, "Maybe we can teach him to sing—if he has a reason to."
A slight breeze tossed a spray of water in the air, cooling it immediately.
He glanced at her occasionally with a slight smile.
He looked at the slight Natural with dark hair and eyes who happened to have a doctorate in every type of science he could name.
The gateway between realms is cracked, and I have a slight Watcher infestation problem.
A slight smile played at the corners of his mouth.
A small rock trickled down, bouncing and skipping before stopping by Dean's shoe—the slight noise was a rumble in the mountain stillness.
His order was calm, the slight accent in his voice foreign.
Xander saw the signs then, the red on her face and the slight tremble of her hands.
Slight shocks are very frequent, some of them severe enough to cause considerable damage to the buildings.
Anyway, he's not slight of build.
Not even a slight breeze stirred the hot air, but the trees seemed to be swaying.
The lieutenant colonel of hussars smiled beneath his mustache at the orderly's tone, dismounted, gave his horse to a dispatch runner, and approached Bolkonski with a slight bow.
After a slight hesitation, she leaned forward and gripped his shoulders.
While I was surveying, the ice, which was sixteen inches thick, undulated under a slight wind like water.
The parcel contained a beautiful lavender dress, causing Cynthia to let out a slight gasp.
In 1896 the grain area was 380,000 acres, a slight diminution having taken place since 1882.
Perhaps at another time Denisov would not have left the regiment for so slight a wound, but now he took advantage of it to excuse himself from appearing at the staff and went into hospital.
She stepped gently into her skirt and with a slight shimmy of her narrow hips adjusted it.
The sun was warm and he walked with a slight limp but an easy stride, past the shops of the small central section to the west side of the quiet town.
In England Cartesianism took but slight hold.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.
The roof must not be quite flat, for a slight fall is necessary in its upper surface to allow water to drain away into gutters placed at convenient points.
To such the State renders comparatively small service, and a slight tax is wont to appear exorbitant, particularly if they are obliged to earn it by special labor with their hands.
With a slight inclination of her head, Natasha stepped back quickly to Mavra Kuzminichna, who stood talking compassionately to the officer.
But when on Sunday after church the footman announced in the drawing room that Count Rostov had called, the princess showed no confusion, only a slight blush suffused her cheeks and her eyes lit up with a new and radiant light.
Natasha asked with a slight smile.
He has alluded to a childish fancy for a young girl with a slight obliquity of vision; but he only mentions it 1 Ouvres, x.
This is especially true of her earlier lessons, when her knowledge of language was so slight as to make explanation impossible.
The house sits on a slight rise, at the end of a long driveway and I had never visited at night.
Cynthia introduced her as Mrs. Edith Jones, drawing a slight smile but no offered hand.
I could always tell if visitors had called in my absence, either by the bended twigs or grass, or the print of their shoes, and generally of what sex or age or quality they were by some slight trace left, as a flower dropped, or a bunch of grass plucked and thrown away, even as far off as the railroad, half a mile distant, or by the lingering odor of a cigar or pipe.
Fully alert, he listened, but heard only night noises, the ticking of the hall clock, a slight breeze, the ever-present furnace rumbling heat to the old building.
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
The two bikers had started down a slight but long downhill, less than a bike length apart, picking up speed as they rolled along.
As she watched his back, it occurred to her that he definitely was not slight of build – maybe a little thin.
Amritsar district is a nearly level plain, with a very slight slope from east to west.
It should be added that the modern theory of vortex-atoms (Lord Kelvin's) to explain the constitution of matter has but slight analogy with Cartesian doctrine, and finds a parellel, if anywhere, in a modification of that doctrine by Malebranche.
In such cases the immediate damage done may be slight; but the effects of prolonged action and the summation of numerous attacks at numerous points are often enormotis, certain of these leafdiseases costing millions sterling annually to some planting and agricultural communities.
Popularly it is supposed that earthquake recorders are instruments so sensitive to slight vibrations that great care is necessary in selecting a site for their installation.