slighting
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Keller and Knight were rewarded with proximity to Storrie and the best punchlines, but neither Quinn nor Jack Hughes had to indicate in any way that they had joined America’s president in slighting them.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
But he wasn’t slighting Griffin’s dynamic rookie season.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2022
After some accused her of unnecessarily forcing a link between the “Hustlers” star and the “Euphoria” star, @NBAgladiator clarified that she’s “not slighting either woman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022
I’ll give you a chance to redeem yourselves by not giving any further detail and be watching here for a remedy of this painful slighting.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2021
I quit selecting certain of my New York brothers and giving them money to go and lay groundwork for new mosques in other cities—because slighting remarks were being made about “Malcolm’s ministers.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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