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slighting
 
Adjective slighting has 1 sense
  1. belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting - tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
    Antonym: complimentary (indirect, via uncomplimentary)
Verb slight has 1 sense
  1. slight, cold-shoulder - pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"
    --1 is one way to dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore
    Derived form: noun slight1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
slighly slight slight care slight curd slight push slighted slightest slighthy slighting slightingly slightly slightly ahead slightly ahead in a game slightness slights sliip slim-waisted

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