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Meanings of slighting in English
Portuguese
depredação 
Tending to diminish or disparage.
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Examples for "deprecating"
Examples for "deprecating"
1
It's a bit of a problem, she laughed in a self-deprecating fashion.
2
He's self-deprecating and quick-witted enough to keep the action breezing right along.
3
For all the shared self-deprecating glee, nobody really knows what to expect.
4
It was self-deprecating, sometimes angry, often witty - and a great success.
5
At this point you might expect a self-deprecating tale of my pratfall.
1
Jim, at 60, has a careful, self-deprecatory way with him these days.
2
The confidential clerk shook his head in a deprecatory way, and smiled.
3
On Saturday Keegan made all the right self-deprecatory noises in the interviews.
4
A deprecatory smile flitted across the long, thin face of the attorney.
5
He went on talking in his self-effacing, deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
1
Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
2
He would dismiss her attempts in a most painful and belittling way.
3
I'm completely uninterested in calling someone a hoe or belittling them-mosttimes.
4
He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them.
5
Trump is not the first president to suffer such a rapid belittling.
1
Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.
2
But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence-surelynot.
3
They are just as timid, shy, and self-depreciatory as before entering.
4
He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.
5
And she was very modest about Mr. Kendricks' attentions, and so self-depreciatory that, well-
1
Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.
2
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
3
But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
4
In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step....
1
This was characteristic of him-everdepreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men's labours.
2
Spade made a depreciative mouth, raising his eyebrows.
3
He lifted a depreciative shoulder.
Usage of slighting in English
1
The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it.
2
And the Bishop had treated her with a singular and slighting coldness.
3
There has been mischief done by slighting criticism and by inconsiderate words.
4
I had been beaten, degraded, and treated with slighting when I complained.
5
She made, with her small white hand, a slight and slighting gesture.
6
I was not slighting you, I was simply shaken by the civil emergency.
7
It does not matter; he should not have exasperated me by slighting me.
8
Let not the knee-jerk deluge of plaudits seduce us into slighting Serena's struggle.
9
I did wrong in slighting your injunction, and suffering Lilian to do so.
10
Some thought Fauci was slighting the president, leading to a vitriolic online reaction.
11
Now I understood her slighting attitude towards my knowledge of birds.
12
I shall not allow you to say slighting things of yourself.
13
At first she could not believe they were wilfully slighting her.
14
Not that Vincent had ever said a single slighting word about Mr. Crittenden.
15
I was a commoner, but it wasn't me she was slighting.
16
A tenderness that did not go very deep, a half-slighting compassion.
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