slightingly

From slighting +‎ -ly.

slightingly (comparative more slightingly, superlative most slightingly)

1. (archaic) In a slighting manner, belittlingly.
   • 1786, Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Volume 5‎:

     I was afraid of a quarrel between Dr. Johnson and Mr. M'Aulay, who talked slightingly of the lower English clergy.

   • 1832, Edward Berens, Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford‎:

     They are, I believe, sometimes spoken slightingly of by men of learning; I, however, as an unlearned man, think them particularly useful.

   • 1880, John Nichol, Byron‎:

     He is fond of gossip, and apt to speak slightingly of some of his friends, but is loyal to others.

   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger: Translated from the Norwegian, London: Leonard Smithers and Co. […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, October 1920 (December 1920 printing), →OCLC, page 139:

     In order to console myself—to indemnify myself in some measure—I take to picking all possible faults in the people who glide by. I shrug my shoulders contemptuously, and look slightingly at them according as they pass.

   • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck‎:

     The colonel touched upon the time when buzzards, in the guise of carpet-baggers, had battened upon the recumbent form; and spoke slightingly of divers persons of antiquity as compared with various Confederate leaders, whose names were greeted with approving nods and ripples of polite enthusiasm.

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