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)

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 Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

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 Darlington, Edgar B. P.

The tones are slighting and contemptuous, enough so to convey the polite warning: Don't go any further, and force me to be positively rude to you.

From Six Women by Cross, Victoria

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 Betts, George Herbert