SLIGHTINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slightingly mean? 

• SLIGHTINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb SLIGHTINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a disparaging manner

  Familiarity information: SLIGHTINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIGHTINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a disparaging manner

Synonyms:

disparagingly; slightingly

Context example:

these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging 'only to a story'

Pertainym:

slighting (tending to diminish or disparage)

 Context examples 

“Not much,” said Mr. Micawber, slightingly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own, however.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She is not a clever girl, but she has better sense than you are aware of, and does not deserve to have her understanding spoken of so slightingly.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly is no atonement to Marianne—nor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Now, if I were to hear anybody speak slightingly of you, I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely, for you are just the kind of girl to be a great favourite with the men.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)