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slighted

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

treated with indifference, especially pointedly or contemptuously; snubbed:
She was miffed at the lack of a written invitation, clearly feeling herself the slighted party.
treated as unimportant; given insufficient attention, value, or effort:
Too often, science is a slighted part of the elementary school curriculum.

First recorded in 1615–25; slight ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; slight ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

Diamond is slighted with a trip to a mall in South Carolina.

Salem the prep school kid felt so slighted by a paltry $3 million bonus in 2011 that he left the firm.

Right now, Ukrainians feel slighted and wary about the future.

Everybody has had something happen to them, that they feel slighted.

An author arguing a point of view has a right to be annoyed if the quality of his work has been unfairly slighted.

Gilbert was not at all satisfied with the promise Dolly had given to his father; he thought himself slighted and ill-used.

Again and again he threw up his command because he thought he was slighted or that others were preferred to him.

Your duties will call you from one group to another, and require constant watchfulness that no one guest is slighted.

You can see that she believes her play was slighted and that it is a great deal better than yours, Jess.

Now, jealousy and perception awoke together—at one sweeping glance backward, she saw herself slighted—foiled—duped!

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