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Definitions
in a disparaging manner
Word origin
From slighting (“in the manner of a slight, belittling, deprecative”, adjective) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Used in a sentence
“Huſh, Siſter! Huſh! ſaid he: I vvill not bear to hear her ſpoken ſlightingly of! 'Tis enough, that to oblige your violent and indecent Caprice, you make me compromiſe vvith you thus.”
“After having talked ſlightingly of muſick, he vvas obſerved to liſten very attentively vvhile Miſs Thrale played on the harpſichord, […]”
“"I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own however."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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