Example Sentences

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Some people in the dementia field believe that to think of the disease as a terrible harm is to think slightingly of people who are living with it.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

Modern English translations are often slightingly compared to the King James, unfairly so.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2011

Queen Elizabeth referred to them slightingly as "Geneva Jigs," but she approved them for public worship.

From Time Magazine Archive

German critics stayed away from Bayreuth, spoke slightingly of it, or worse, ignored it completely.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was as though she had directly insulted me by speaking so slightingly of herself.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson