slight
adjective
small in amount, degree, etc..
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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“Pray do not think I am slighting your father, or looking down upon what he has done, which, speaking as a blunt man, is very self-sacrificing.”
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn