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Meanings of slighting in English

Portuguese
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 English
            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
            Portuguese
            depredação
            Slighting through the time
            Slighting across language varieties
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