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slightingly, adv.|ˈslaɪtɪŋlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a slighting manner; contemptuously, disdainfully; with little regard or respect.
1636Davenant Wits Wks. (1673) 208 You speak slightingly of it, As if 'twere a poor thing. 1654Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 51 Ormond replied, ‘perhaps his Lordship had a faculty to make any thing good’, and slitingly neglected him. 1740–1Richardson Pamela II. 291 Hush! said he: I will not bear to hear her spoken slightingly of! 1790Beatson Naval & Milit. Mem. I. 42 By failing in this hazardous exploit, which he had treated so slightingly. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. xvi. (1845) 359 The passages..might lead us to think slightingly of his candour. 1881Saintsbury Dryden iii. 65 Dryden speaks slightingly of these University prologues.
So ˈslightingness, disdainfulness. rare—1.
1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Greg. Naz. 328 The Emperor quickly discern'd the slightingness of his carriage. |