slight
adjective
small in amount, degree, etc..
are slighting
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present progressiveof slight.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Do you remember how late in the season it is? and that you are slighting Nature?
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
And why that you are slighting me as a stranger, as though you had never known me?
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
Have you so many interests that you are slighting the development of some of the more important ones?
From The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
We are slighting a good many of these bigger towns.
From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Edgar B. P. Darlington
You are playing false to your vows," she said; "you are slighting your vocation; yet no worthy or noble feeling draws your heart back to the world.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
