slighting in English

adjective

1

showing a lack of respect; insulting or disparaging.

slighting references to Irish Catholics

verb

1

insult (someone) by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention.

he was careful not to slight a guest

synonyms: insulting, disparaging, derogatory, disrespectful, denigratory, pejorative, abusive, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, scurrilous, disdainful, scornful, contemptuous, contumelious, insult, snub, rebuff, repulse, spurn, treat disrespectfully, give someone the cold shoulder, scorn, give someone the brush-off, freeze out

2

raze or destroy (a fortification).

Temporarily Hadrian's Wall became redundant; gates were removed from the milecastles, and parts of the Vallum were deliberately slighted to form additional crossings.

adjective

• insulting, disparaging, derogatory, disrespectful, denigratory, pejorative, abusive, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, scurrilous, disdainful, scornful, contemptuous, contumelious
• deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory

verb

• insult, snub, rebuff, repulse, spurn, treat disrespectfully, give someone the cold shoulder, scorn, give someone the brush-off, freeze out
• cold-shoulder

Use "slighting" in a sentence

1. 7 synonyms for Belittling: denigration, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, slighting, depreciative, depreciatory

2. Antonyms for Adulatory include disparaging, unflattering, contemptuous, slighting, derogatory, scornful, belittling, critical, deprecatory and insulting

3. Synonyms for Affronting include insulting, offending, outraging, slighting, provoking, piquing, vexing, wounding, displeasing and hurting

4. No one, of course, likes being the object of slighting remarks or actions.

5. Through metaphor Thoreau renders the self and nature in total interrelationship without slighting either half of the duality.

6. Synonyms for Contemptuous include disdainful, scornful, disparaging, derogatory, slighting, arrogant, denigratory, haughty, belittling and supercilious

7. Synonyms for Contemning include disdaining, scorning, slighting, deriding, despising, dissing, disregarding, disrespecting, snubbing and undervaluing

8. Antonyms for Belaboring include disregarding, forgetting, ignoring, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, slighting and slurring over

9. Never use a slighting Expression to her even in jest; for Slights in Jest after frequent Bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest

10. Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent Bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest

11. Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent Bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest

12. Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slight in jest, after frequent Bandyings are apt to end in angry earnest

13. Belittling: 1 adj tending to diminish or disparage “ Belittling comments” Synonyms: deprecating , deprecative , deprecatory , depreciative , depreciatory , slighting uncomplimentary tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage n the act of Belittling Type of: disparagement , dispraise the act of speaking contemptuously of n a Belittling