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Definition of slight in English: slightadjective slʌɪtslaɪt 1Small in degree; inconsiderable. the chance of success is very slight Example sentencesExamples - However, even the moderate winds during my drive caused the roadster to react with a slight degree of cowl shake.
- My hands were getting clammy and I was feeling a slight degree of nervousness.
- We couldn't have asked for a better day, around 19 degrees Celsius, a slight breeze and hardly a cloud in the sky.
- Having said that, the latter does play its part, but only to a slight degree.
- Aerodynamic limitations have been avoided to a slight degree at almost prohibitive cost and with consequent contamination.
- Hence, the difference could only be explained by the use of a different negative, copied from the original with a slight degree of enlargement.
- All human eyes have a slight degree of farsightedness at birth.
- Colors often look muted and washed out with there also being a slight degree of edge enhancement rearing its ugly head.
- In virtually every case, however, the degree of degradation was slight enough to be inconsequential.
- Once you're out on the streets you do have a slight degree of autonomy.
- Thomas is also exhibiting more obvious signs of agoraphobia, although of a slight degree.
- There may be in fact none, of course, but notions of that kind perhaps still inform the provision to a slight degree.
- There were 21 injuries as a result of accidental fires a slight increase from last year but half of those reported were from just two incidents.
- Now that mightn't be just be in number of cases, it might just be in slight increases in margin return over time.
- Five of six genes, regardless of X or autosomal location, are increased in expression to a slight degree in mutant females.
- This results in fluid retention of a slight degree when you are able to drink adequately and replete your exercise fluid losses.
- They improve performance to a slight degree, but not by any factor that a typical user would notice, he says.
- Customers do get us mixed-up however, which can cause a slight degree of chaos with orders!
- A slight degree of petulance had crept into his voice.
- The air temperature is 26 degrees and there is slight westerly breeze blowing.
Synonyms small, modest, little, tiny, minute, inappreciable, imperceptible, infinitesimal, hardly worth mentioning, negligible, inconsiderable, insignificant, minimal, marginal remote, scant, slim, outside faint, vague, subtle, gentle informal minuscule rare exiguous - 1.1 (especially of a creative work) not profound or substantial; rather trivial or superficial.
Example sentencesExamples - I mean, this isn't Shakespeare, it's slight and rather broad comedy.
- It's a slight work, but gives an insight into Puccini's early creativity.
- This is a rather slight movie if I ever saw one, but that doesn't mean it's not an enjoyable one.
- It is all rather slight, but the visual beauty and thrilling action make this a stunning work of animation.
- Komorebi is a slight work made up of sketches and vignettes, whose very slightness is one of its most attractive qualities.
- Her books are deceptively slight, superficially easy, and so easily misunderstood.
- His best work was way behind him by this time, and even now it's rather slight, but I have a soft spot for some of it
- A woman writer who evokes an intensely personal landscape still finds she is dismissed as slight, precious, trivial.
- The earliest concertos composed for square piano are slight works, diverting but lightweight.
- Abelard also wrote a slight work of practical advice for his son.
- Taylor understands the idiom quite perfectly and he manages to bring a grandeur and nobility to the admittedly slight work.
- This tale is rather slight, but the visual beauty and thrilling action make this a stunning work of animation.
- He continues to direct good films, even if all of them are rather slight.
- Objectively, the plot is slight, but wrapped up in the details there lurks an epic tale.
- Ultimately, it all sounds rather petty and slight.
- Despite this, cumulatively the threads both between tracks and between the constituent parts of each track appear rather too slight to maintain this listener's engagement.
- You can still interact with people, but those interactions are slight and superficial (in the on-the-surface sense) and ephemeral.
- While intelligent and elegant, they have seemed rather slight and concerned with relatively marginal problems.
- He is too light, too slight, too trivial, a figure with insufficient gravity.
- Much of his concert work is slight, mainly because that's all the time he felt he could give.
Synonyms minor, inconsequential, trivial, trifling, unimportant, lightweight, superficial, shallow, of little account, petty, paltry informal penny-ante British informal twopenny-halfpenny North American informal nickel-and-dime
2(of a person or their build) not sturdy; thin or slender. she was slight and delicate-looking Example sentencesExamples - She is being lifted bodily by a policeman, easily, for she is slight and frail.
- When I started playing I was 80 kg and now I'm up to 94 kg so although I look slight people don't always give me the credit I deserve.
- He was a slight man wearing owl glasses, with thin brown hair that left a bald spot on the back of his head.
- He assessed the slight build, her figure more apparent in the loose but lighter clothing.
- Live, Benson cut a slight figure, which contrasted with the muscular edge given to his exemplary material - highlighting the riffs and choruses to good effect.
- She was a rather slight, elderly woman with a nose that resembled the large beak of a macaw.
- Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
- She stared over at Tyler who was struggling with a slight man with a thin moustache and a scar over one eye.
- Mona always said that she was fat, when in reality, she was dainty with a slight build.
- Some days, I am awfully grateful that I am of such a slight build…
- A large ill - fitting black jacket dwarfed his slight figure and his head bowed as he listened to the proceedings through the earphones he required because of a hearing impairment.
- Fowler, whose brilliance defies her slight figure, plugged through to strike partner Helen Wix, who earned a short corner off the foot of Bethan Walsh.
- He was of a slight build, about 5ft 10 in tall and between 30 and 35 years old.
- She is still slight in build, her child's presence not ostensible.
- She was small, and thin, with a slight build, and dark, shoulder-length hair; I couldn't tell if it was black or dark brown.
- The man is white, of slight build and around 5ft 7in.
- Khad's slight build and almost feminine looks gave him a delicate look.
- He was short, perhaps even a little smaller than she, and, despite his enveloping cloak, she suspected that he was slight in build as well.
- The family said Ms Hindson was about 160-170 cm tall and had a very slight build.
- He's not very skinny, but he's got a very slight build.
Synonyms slim, slender, slightly built, petite, diminutive, small, delicate, dainty, small-boned, elfin thin, skinny, size-zero, spare, puny, undersized, frail, weak Scottish wee informal pint-sized, pocket-size rare gracile, attenuate
verb slʌɪtslaɪt [with object]1Insult (someone) by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention. he was desperate not to slight a guest Example sentencesExamples - Am I expiating the crime of slighting my father so much?
- There were plenty who would wish to slight John Brown and Queen Victoria.
- It shows how support for old clients can be profitable and provides advice on how to support them without slighting new clients.
- If any opponent slights his team, you can bet Belichick will find out and let it simmer on his players' minds.
- My mother was convinced they were slighting us because you were mad at me!
- A master of the tea ceremony in old Japan once accidentally slighted a soldier.
- Needless to say, the two slighted women had been less than thrilled concerning their banishment and protested their exclusion on a daily basis.
- He did not spend time slighting the enemy, but commenced to work on the minds and hearts of the British people.
- He can finally seek revenge upon the kids from school who have slighted him in any way.
- Do you feel slighted by the early announcement?
- When he slights Judy in front of his friends, Dennis is obviously furious, yet we see what kind of a parent he is when he invites her to make her own decision as to whether or not to forgive him.
- They continue to invite his ex-wife over, while slighting my mother.
- One is not slighting her in saying that she comes close to, but does not equal, the unsurpassable Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
- To return to the country that slighted him as a fully fledged film star would have been sweet revenge, but he could have blown it.
- They can be excessive in their devotions to Carlyle and Henry James and their denunciations can at times be annoying in slighting great writers such as Thackeray and Jane Austen.
- It seems Mr Wyatt thought the injured person slighted him in some way but this offence is totally out of character.
- Joey's management company, afraid that the film was slighting their dead client for Johnny, demanded that the film-makers find more interview footage of Joey before okaying the final cut.
- Not to slight him in any way, but that's a lot of people to know.
- And then I thought, well, I was slighted, in quite a significant way.
- So if you take a swipe at Vermont-please do not slight the troops.
Synonyms insult, snub, rebuff, repulse, spurn, treat disrespectfully, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, brush off, turn one's back on, keep at arm's length, disregard, ignore, cut (dead), neglect, take no notice of, disdain, scorn informal give someone the brush-off, freeze out, stiff-arm, knock back informal, dated give someone the go-by rare misprize, scout insulting, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, pejorative, abusive, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous disdainful, scornful, contemptuous informal bitchy archaic contumelious 2archaic Raze or destroy (a fortification) a Council determined whether the Fort should be kept or slighted Example sentencesExamples - It was strongly slighted and used as a quarry for the town houses.
- Temporarily Hadrian's Wall became redundant; gates were removed from the milecastles, and parts of the Vallum were deliberately slighted to form additional crossings.
- This establishment was severely damaged by flooding at the end of the second century and rebuilt in much the same form, only to be slighted during the barbarian incursions of AD 276.
- In recognition of the part that castles had played in the war, the majority of surviving buildings were deliberately slighted by the victorious parliamentarians.
noun slʌɪtslaɪt An insult caused by a failure to show someone proper respect or attention. an unintended slight can create grudges he was seething at the slight to his authority Example sentencesExamples - Allowing perceived slights to grow into mountainous outrage means the gulfs will widen and individuals will reach a point where there is no going back and, therefore, no going forward.
- Hopkins' hysteria was a sample of America's campus-based indignation industry, which churns out operatic reactions to imagined slights.
- However, between Hindu and Muslim communities, even rumors, supposed slights, or perceived insults can result in mass riots.
- I have no racism horror stories, no lists of slights and snubs.
- These are, for the most part, unintentional slights.
- But many of the slights, misunderstandings and, yes, conniving, are typical of any bureaucracy, as officials pursue a range of different agendas.
- Unlike the Europeans and the Chinese, for instance, who behave as if slights from the 14th century happened five minutes ago, we are oblivious to our own political past.
- They experience the slights, stereotypes, and exclusions of racism but civil rights laws have made racial discrimination illegal, and most white Americans embrace the ideal of racial equality.
- People are extra-sensitive right now to atmosphere, undercurrents, moods and nuances, slights and slurs.
- The details of supposed slights and implied insults are trivia.
- They can go to school, do everything right, and still not get that job, still deal with casual slights and insults, still get stopped by the police.
- Agnes and I sat in her filthy living room, reliving all the mean, thoughtless slights and insults she could remember.
- Minorities are encouraged to complain about any perceived slights to their particular group, and to challenge the assumptions of ‘the white male hegemony.’
- But then I remembered I'm halfway around the world and the Greek and Cypriot history is rich enough that small insults or slights are laughable.
- His disappointment at his failure to achieve the goals he had hoped for renders him particularly sensitive to slights or perceived lack of respect by others.
- If I offended anyone of the Jewish faith, then I apologize for the unintended slight.
- I don't think I keep grudges, although I tend to remember perceived slights or injustices.
- All of us when we're in politics suffer real or imagined slights, insults, whatever, but the fact is they were bad things.
- No amount of recognition is sufficient, however, and other people's innocent comments or actions are misinterpreted as insults or slights.
- Rupe has a prodigious memory and holds grudges, slights and wrongs long and hard.
Synonyms insult, affront, slur, disparaging remark snub, rebuff, rejection spurning, cold-shouldering, disregard, rudeness, disrespect, disdain, scorn informal put-down, dig, brush-off, kick in the teeth, slap in the face
Phrases he didn't mind in the slightest Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, we weren't lucky, not in the slightest.
- It wasn't that he despised her - not in the slightest.
- What happened in Darwen proves that is not the case, not in the slightest.
- He really wasn't special, not in the slightest.
- This didn't make Jonah feel better, not in the slightest.
- That wouldn't do any good right here and now - not in the slightest.
- ‘No mate, not in the slightest, truly,’ explains Paul.
- ‘Absolutely not in the slightest,’ says Bowdler.
- It certainly didn't feel okay, not in the slightest.
- I went to a therapist a good few years ago, once a week for around six weeks, and found her not in the slightest way mad.
Synonyms by no means, by no manner of means, not at all, in no way, not in the least, not in the slightest, not the least bit, certainly not, absolutely not, definitely not, on no account, under no circumstances
usually with negativeAny — whatsoever. I don't have the slightest idea Example sentencesExamples - Eyes wide open, he studies everything, observes the slightest details of the station, noticing one advertisement in particular.
- Aviation/space is simply not forgiving of even the slightest errors.
- But in a profession as obsessed with hierarchy as the law, everyone seems to pay very close attention to the slightest variations anyway.
- In two of the images hanging at the apse are the slightest suggestions of feet, almost compelling the viewer's vision upwards to the scaffolding catwalk that runs along the ceiling.
- The quality of the tennis on a chill and blustery afternoon in London was impressive and Sharapova never showed the slightest signs of cracking against her more illustrious opponent.
- Whenever civil resistance has shown the slightest signs of evolving from symbolic action into anything remotely threatening, the crackdown is merciless.
- But then again, it was a recording, and the slightest errors would show up.
- But if the multimillionaires harbor even the slightest doubts about their qualifications for solving social and geopolitical ills, they don't express it.
- My best guess is that because bloggers depend so much on mainstream journalists, even the slightest differences in our perception of their work become greatly magnified.
- For his part, Walters has been busy crisscrossing the nation, trying to extinguish even the slightest moves to alter the nation's draconian drug laws.
Derivatives adjective The picture also shows a slightish white margin to the leaf, which is supposed to be another identifying characteristic, although the margins of most of the leaves on my sample had aged to a dull reddish color. Example sentencesExamples - The only slightish snag - if you want to see it as one - is that Michael Shanks looks quite quite like Ben Browder.
- Shepherd was of medium height and slightish build with a serious manner but a dry sense of humour.
- Shortish and slightish, he can appear spiky, but is more curious than combative.
- The stereotypes, of course, change: before, it was the dark hair, the small and small-boned haughty elegance, the slightish mouth.
noun ˈslʌɪtnəsˈslaɪtnəs It is possible to admire her amazing grace and athleticism, yet still be somewhat unnerved by the slightness of her frame. Example sentencesExamples - But sometimes when we are out, she still slips her hand into mine as we walk, and each time she does it, I feel the fragile-boned slightness of her hand and wonder, is this the last time?
- An innately talented midfielder with a sweet left foot and sharp brain, Dillon's slightness of stature is perhaps the only thing that prevents him making it at a higher level.
- Again, above all, the staleness and slightness of the work strike one.
- It tries so hard to be profound, but the slightness of its themes leaves the whole project sadly weightless and ultimately superficial.
Origin Middle English; the adjective from Old Norse sléttr 'smooth' (an early sense in English), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slechts 'merely' and German schlicht 'simple', schlecht 'bad'; the verb (originally in the sense 'make smooth or level'), from Old Norse slétta. The sense ‘treat with disrespect’ dates from the late 16th century. slick from Middle English: Although it is not recorded until after the Norman Conquest, slick, originally meaning ‘glossy’ was probably in Old English as it is a Germanic word. The sense ‘plausible’ dates from the late 16th century; ‘skilful, adroit’ dates from the early 19th century. Sleek (Late Middle English) is a later variant of slick. Slight (Middle English) is related, for it originally meant ‘smooth’ although negative senses also exist in related languages. The sense ‘treat with disrespect’ is found from the late 16th century, from the earlier sense of ‘to level’. For sleekit
Rhymes affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write Definition of slight in US English: slightadjectiveslaɪtslīt 1Small in degree; inconsiderable. the chance of success is very slight Example sentencesExamples - We couldn't have asked for a better day, around 19 degrees Celsius, a slight breeze and hardly a cloud in the sky.
- The air temperature is 26 degrees and there is slight westerly breeze blowing.
- My hands were getting clammy and I was feeling a slight degree of nervousness.
- Hence, the difference could only be explained by the use of a different negative, copied from the original with a slight degree of enlargement.
- However, even the moderate winds during my drive caused the roadster to react with a slight degree of cowl shake.
- This results in fluid retention of a slight degree when you are able to drink adequately and replete your exercise fluid losses.
- Now that mightn't be just be in number of cases, it might just be in slight increases in margin return over time.
- All human eyes have a slight degree of farsightedness at birth.
- Thomas is also exhibiting more obvious signs of agoraphobia, although of a slight degree.
- Customers do get us mixed-up however, which can cause a slight degree of chaos with orders!
- Once you're out on the streets you do have a slight degree of autonomy.
- There were 21 injuries as a result of accidental fires a slight increase from last year but half of those reported were from just two incidents.
- There may be in fact none, of course, but notions of that kind perhaps still inform the provision to a slight degree.
- Having said that, the latter does play its part, but only to a slight degree.
- Aerodynamic limitations have been avoided to a slight degree at almost prohibitive cost and with consequent contamination.
- Colors often look muted and washed out with there also being a slight degree of edge enhancement rearing its ugly head.
- In virtually every case, however, the degree of degradation was slight enough to be inconsequential.
- Five of six genes, regardless of X or autosomal location, are increased in expression to a slight degree in mutant females.
- They improve performance to a slight degree, but not by any factor that a typical user would notice, he says.
- A slight degree of petulance had crept into his voice.
Synonyms small, modest, little, tiny, minute, inappreciable, imperceptible, infinitesimal, hardly worth mentioning, negligible, inconsiderable, insignificant, minimal, marginal - 1.1 (especially of a creative work) not profound or substantial; somewhat trivial or superficial.
Example sentencesExamples - It is all rather slight, but the visual beauty and thrilling action make this a stunning work of animation.
- Abelard also wrote a slight work of practical advice for his son.
- Ultimately, it all sounds rather petty and slight.
- Objectively, the plot is slight, but wrapped up in the details there lurks an epic tale.
- Despite this, cumulatively the threads both between tracks and between the constituent parts of each track appear rather too slight to maintain this listener's engagement.
- The earliest concertos composed for square piano are slight works, diverting but lightweight.
- He is too light, too slight, too trivial, a figure with insufficient gravity.
- Her books are deceptively slight, superficially easy, and so easily misunderstood.
- His best work was way behind him by this time, and even now it's rather slight, but I have a soft spot for some of it
- Komorebi is a slight work made up of sketches and vignettes, whose very slightness is one of its most attractive qualities.
- This is a rather slight movie if I ever saw one, but that doesn't mean it's not an enjoyable one.
- While intelligent and elegant, they have seemed rather slight and concerned with relatively marginal problems.
- You can still interact with people, but those interactions are slight and superficial (in the on-the-surface sense) and ephemeral.
- This tale is rather slight, but the visual beauty and thrilling action make this a stunning work of animation.
- I mean, this isn't Shakespeare, it's slight and rather broad comedy.
- He continues to direct good films, even if all of them are rather slight.
- Taylor understands the idiom quite perfectly and he manages to bring a grandeur and nobility to the admittedly slight work.
- It's a slight work, but gives an insight into Puccini's early creativity.
- Much of his concert work is slight, mainly because that's all the time he felt he could give.
- A woman writer who evokes an intensely personal landscape still finds she is dismissed as slight, precious, trivial.
Synonyms minor, inconsequential, trivial, trifling, unimportant, lightweight, superficial, shallow, of little account, petty, paltry
2(of a person or their build) not sturdy and strongly built. she was slight and delicate-looking Example sentencesExamples - The family said Ms Hindson was about 160-170 cm tall and had a very slight build.
- A large ill - fitting black jacket dwarfed his slight figure and his head bowed as he listened to the proceedings through the earphones he required because of a hearing impairment.
- Khad's slight build and almost feminine looks gave him a delicate look.
- Mona always said that she was fat, when in reality, she was dainty with a slight build.
- She is still slight in build, her child's presence not ostensible.
- When I started playing I was 80 kg and now I'm up to 94 kg so although I look slight people don't always give me the credit I deserve.
- She was small, and thin, with a slight build, and dark, shoulder-length hair; I couldn't tell if it was black or dark brown.
- He was of a slight build, about 5ft 10 in tall and between 30 and 35 years old.
- Fowler, whose brilliance defies her slight figure, plugged through to strike partner Helen Wix, who earned a short corner off the foot of Bethan Walsh.
- He was short, perhaps even a little smaller than she, and, despite his enveloping cloak, she suspected that he was slight in build as well.
- Live, Benson cut a slight figure, which contrasted with the muscular edge given to his exemplary material - highlighting the riffs and choruses to good effect.
- He's not very skinny, but he's got a very slight build.
- Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
- She is being lifted bodily by a policeman, easily, for she is slight and frail.
- He assessed the slight build, her figure more apparent in the loose but lighter clothing.
- She stared over at Tyler who was struggling with a slight man with a thin moustache and a scar over one eye.
- He was a slight man wearing owl glasses, with thin brown hair that left a bald spot on the back of his head.
- She was a rather slight, elderly woman with a nose that resembled the large beak of a macaw.
- Some days, I am awfully grateful that I am of such a slight build…
- The man is white, of slight build and around 5ft 7in.
Synonyms slim, slender, slightly built, petite, diminutive, small, delicate, dainty, small-boned, elfin
verbslaɪtslīt [with object]1Insult (someone) by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention. he was careful not to slight a guest Example sentencesExamples - It seems Mr Wyatt thought the injured person slighted him in some way but this offence is totally out of character.
- And then I thought, well, I was slighted, in quite a significant way.
- There were plenty who would wish to slight John Brown and Queen Victoria.
- Do you feel slighted by the early announcement?
- My mother was convinced they were slighting us because you were mad at me!
- Am I expiating the crime of slighting my father so much?
- To return to the country that slighted him as a fully fledged film star would have been sweet revenge, but he could have blown it.
- They can be excessive in their devotions to Carlyle and Henry James and their denunciations can at times be annoying in slighting great writers such as Thackeray and Jane Austen.
- He did not spend time slighting the enemy, but commenced to work on the minds and hearts of the British people.
- He can finally seek revenge upon the kids from school who have slighted him in any way.
- If any opponent slights his team, you can bet Belichick will find out and let it simmer on his players' minds.
- Joey's management company, afraid that the film was slighting their dead client for Johnny, demanded that the film-makers find more interview footage of Joey before okaying the final cut.
- A master of the tea ceremony in old Japan once accidentally slighted a soldier.
- Needless to say, the two slighted women had been less than thrilled concerning their banishment and protested their exclusion on a daily basis.
- One is not slighting her in saying that she comes close to, but does not equal, the unsurpassable Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
- When he slights Judy in front of his friends, Dennis is obviously furious, yet we see what kind of a parent he is when he invites her to make her own decision as to whether or not to forgive him.
- Not to slight him in any way, but that's a lot of people to know.
- They continue to invite his ex-wife over, while slighting my mother.
- So if you take a swipe at Vermont-please do not slight the troops.
- It shows how support for old clients can be profitable and provides advice on how to support them without slighting new clients.
Synonyms insulting, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, pejorative, abusive, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous insult, snub, rebuff, repulse, spurn, treat disrespectfully, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, brush off, turn one's back on, keep at arm's length, disregard, ignore, cut, cut dead, neglect, take no notice of, disdain, scorn 2archaic Raze or destroy (a fortification). Example sentencesExamples - In recognition of the part that castles had played in the war, the majority of surviving buildings were deliberately slighted by the victorious parliamentarians.
- Temporarily Hadrian's Wall became redundant; gates were removed from the milecastles, and parts of the Vallum were deliberately slighted to form additional crossings.
- This establishment was severely damaged by flooding at the end of the second century and rebuilt in much the same form, only to be slighted during the barbarian incursions of AD 276.
- It was strongly slighted and used as a quarry for the town houses.
nounslaɪtslīt An insult caused by a failure to show someone proper respect or attention. an unintended slight can create grudges he was seething at the slight to his authority Example sentencesExamples - The details of supposed slights and implied insults are trivia.
- Rupe has a prodigious memory and holds grudges, slights and wrongs long and hard.
- All of us when we're in politics suffer real or imagined slights, insults, whatever, but the fact is they were bad things.
- They can go to school, do everything right, and still not get that job, still deal with casual slights and insults, still get stopped by the police.
- His disappointment at his failure to achieve the goals he had hoped for renders him particularly sensitive to slights or perceived lack of respect by others.
- Minorities are encouraged to complain about any perceived slights to their particular group, and to challenge the assumptions of ‘the white male hegemony.’
- I have no racism horror stories, no lists of slights and snubs.
- These are, for the most part, unintentional slights.
- But then I remembered I'm halfway around the world and the Greek and Cypriot history is rich enough that small insults or slights are laughable.
- But many of the slights, misunderstandings and, yes, conniving, are typical of any bureaucracy, as officials pursue a range of different agendas.
- No amount of recognition is sufficient, however, and other people's innocent comments or actions are misinterpreted as insults or slights.
- However, between Hindu and Muslim communities, even rumors, supposed slights, or perceived insults can result in mass riots.
- Agnes and I sat in her filthy living room, reliving all the mean, thoughtless slights and insults she could remember.
- Allowing perceived slights to grow into mountainous outrage means the gulfs will widen and individuals will reach a point where there is no going back and, therefore, no going forward.
- If I offended anyone of the Jewish faith, then I apologize for the unintended slight.
- I don't think I keep grudges, although I tend to remember perceived slights or injustices.
- They experience the slights, stereotypes, and exclusions of racism but civil rights laws have made racial discrimination illegal, and most white Americans embrace the ideal of racial equality.
- Unlike the Europeans and the Chinese, for instance, who behave as if slights from the 14th century happened five minutes ago, we are oblivious to our own political past.
- People are extra-sensitive right now to atmosphere, undercurrents, moods and nuances, slights and slurs.
- Hopkins' hysteria was a sample of America's campus-based indignation industry, which churns out operatic reactions to imagined slights.
Synonyms insult, affront, slur, disparaging remark
Phrases he didn't mind in the slightest Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, we weren't lucky, not in the slightest.
- I went to a therapist a good few years ago, once a week for around six weeks, and found her not in the slightest way mad.
- ‘Absolutely not in the slightest,’ says Bowdler.
- That wouldn't do any good right here and now - not in the slightest.
- It wasn't that he despised her - not in the slightest.
- It certainly didn't feel okay, not in the slightest.
- This didn't make Jonah feel better, not in the slightest.
- What happened in Darwen proves that is not the case, not in the slightest.
- ‘No mate, not in the slightest, truly,’ explains Paul.
- He really wasn't special, not in the slightest.
Synonyms by no means, by no manner of means, not at all, in no way, not in the least, not in the slightest, not the least bit, certainly not, absolutely not, definitely not, on no account, under no circumstances
usually with negativeAny — whatsoever. I don't have the slightest idea Example sentencesExamples - In two of the images hanging at the apse are the slightest suggestions of feet, almost compelling the viewer's vision upwards to the scaffolding catwalk that runs along the ceiling.
- My best guess is that because bloggers depend so much on mainstream journalists, even the slightest differences in our perception of their work become greatly magnified.
- But if the multimillionaires harbor even the slightest doubts about their qualifications for solving social and geopolitical ills, they don't express it.
- The quality of the tennis on a chill and blustery afternoon in London was impressive and Sharapova never showed the slightest signs of cracking against her more illustrious opponent.
- Whenever civil resistance has shown the slightest signs of evolving from symbolic action into anything remotely threatening, the crackdown is merciless.
- But in a profession as obsessed with hierarchy as the law, everyone seems to pay very close attention to the slightest variations anyway.
- Aviation/space is simply not forgiving of even the slightest errors.
- But then again, it was a recording, and the slightest errors would show up.
- Eyes wide open, he studies everything, observes the slightest details of the station, noticing one advertisement in particular.
- For his part, Walters has been busy crisscrossing the nation, trying to extinguish even the slightest moves to alter the nation's draconian drug laws.
Origin Middle English; the adjective from Old Norse sléttr ‘smooth’ (an early sense in English), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slechts ‘merely’ and German schlicht ‘simple’, schlecht ‘bad’; the verb (originally in the sense ‘make smooth or level’), from Old Norse slétta. The sense ‘treat with disrespect’ dates from the late 16th century. |