slight
adjective
small in amount, degree, etc..
had slighted
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past perfectof slight.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“You could tell he wanted to say something to whoever he felt had slighted him, but he never did,” Mr. Holtzclaw said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2016
Then came Sherman’s rant, boasting and deriding intended receiver Michael Crabtree, whom Sherman felt had slighted him at a charity softball game last summer.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2014
Feeling that the commission, which he appointed himself, had slighted the Administration's efforts to help Negroes, Johnson all but ignored the study.
From Time Magazine Archive
His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies.
From Time Magazine Archive
And she had held out her hand to them, and they had slighted it!
From Candle and Crib by Beatrice Elvery
