slight
adjective
small in amount, degree, etc..
had been slighting
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past perfect progressiveof slight.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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And fearing that I had been slighting my work, I would go back carefully all over the figures, only to find the footings correct.
From Quiet Talks with World Winners by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
