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Meanings of slighting in anglès

portuguès
depredação
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A type of destruction.

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depredação

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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Usage of slighting in anglès
1
The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it.
The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts
2
And the Bishop had treated her with a singular and slighting coldness.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
3
There has been mischief done by slighting criticism and by inconsiderate words.
A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916
4
I had been beaten, degraded, and treated with slighting when I complained.
The Crayon Papers
5
She made, with her small white hand, a slight and slighting gesture.
Lady Baltimore
6
I was not slighting you, I was simply shaken by the civil emergency.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
7
It does not matter; he should not have exasperated me by slighting me.
Wife in Name Only
8
Let not the knee-jerk deluge of plaudits seduce us into slighting Serena's struggle.
The Guardian
9
I did wrong in slighting your injunction, and suffering Lilian to do so.
A Strange Story — Volume 05
10
Some thought Fauci was slighting the president, leading to a vitriolic online reaction.
The Irish Times
11
Now I understood her slighting attitude towards my knowledge of birds.
A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story
12
I shall not allow you to say slighting things of yourself.
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College
13
At first she could not believe they were wilfully slighting her.
Purple Springs
14
Not that Vincent had ever said a single slighting word about Mr. Crittenden.
The Brimming Cup
15
I was a commoner, but it wasn't me she was slighting.
Nefertiti
16
A tenderness that did not go very deep, a half-slighting compassion.
In the Year of Jubilee
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Translations for slighting
portuguès
depredação
Slighting through the time
Slighting across language varieties
United Kingdom
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