Crossword-Solution: SLIGHTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slighting | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Slight |
| Slighting | a. | Characterized by neglect or disregard. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SLIGHTING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Insulting someone by inattention | 1 answer |
| characteristic of a slight | 1 answer |
| Attacking | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLIGHTING (5)
Boldwood came close and bid her good-morning, with such constraint that she could not but think he had stepped across to the washing for its own sake, hoping not to find her there; more, she fancied his brow severe and his eye slighting.
She had not deserved it; she had often been negligent or perverse, slighting his advice, or even wilfully opposing him, insensible of half his merits, and quarrelling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own—but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with an endeavour to improve her, and an anxiety for her doing right, which no other creature had at all shared.
But Cormac answered, “Said it may be, for sooth it may be: I will never think of her.” “Woe to us, then,” said Thorgils, “for listening to the words of yon fiend, and slighting this offer!” Then spoke Cormac, “I bid thee, Bersi, to the holmgang within half a month, at Leidholm, in Middal.” Bersi said he would come, but Cormac should be the worse for his choice.
She was secretary, or something of the sort, in the background of a house where I used to dine.” He loathed the slighting indifference of the phrase, but he had uttered it deliberately, had been secretly practising it all through the interminable hour at the luncheon-table.
And he told her that he wasn't really slighting her lips, only that they moved so fast he could not catch them.
Quotes with SLIGHTING (3)
It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.
Now, to be sure, Mrs Varden thought, here is a perfect character. Here is a meek, righteous, thoroughgoing Christian, who, having mastered all these qualities, so difficult of attainment; who, having dropped a pinch of salt on the tails of all the cardinal virtues, and caught them everyone; makes light of their possession, and pants for more morality. For the good woman never doubted (as many good men and women never do), that this slighting kind of profession, this setting s…
and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel — writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding — joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, a…