slightingly
adv/ˈslaɪtɪŋli/UK/ˈslaɪtɪŋli/US
Etymology
From slighting (“in the manner of a slight, belittling, deprecative”, adjective) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Definitions
In a slighting manner
In a slighting manner; belittlingly, contemptuously.
- Huſh, Siſter! Huſh! ſaid he: I vvill not bear to hear her ſpoken ſlightingly of! 'Tis enough, that to oblige your violent and indecent Caprice, you make me compromiſe vvith you thus.
- After having talked ſlightingly of muſick, he vvas obſerved to liſten very attentively vvhile Miſs Thrale played on the harpſichord, […]
- "I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own however."
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at slightingly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at slightingly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at slightingly
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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