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How to use slighted in a sentence

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To return to the country that slighted him as a fully fledged film star would have been sweet revenge, but he could have blown it.
It seems Mr Wyatt thought the injured person slighted him in some way but this offence is totally out of character.
You slighted me as if I were but a mere slip of a child you could send to her room!
There is also an interesting scene in which a girl is traded for a mule, and no one feels particularly slighted!
Needless to say, the two slighted women had been less than thrilled concerning their banishment and protested their exclusion on a daily basis.
He can finally seek revenge upon the kids from school who have slighted him in any way.
Workers, critics surmised, must surely feel slighted, insulted, and mocked by such acts of disdain.
A master of the tea ceremony in old Japan once accidentally slighted a soldier.
But his prickly sense of slighted dignity and obsessive contempt for other people's ethical squalor inevitably drags him down.
It occurs to me that you have slighted the most important member of the phobia family, and that is pyrophobia.
In recognition of the part that castles had played in the war, the majority of surviving buildings were deliberately slighted by the victorious parliamentarians.
And even though they're not alerted if you defriend them, they will eventually discover you missing from their list and feel slighted.
I just assumed that maybe you wanted to take the questions in between the two presentations, so I didn't feel slighted at all.
Its weakness because in this conception of the dialogue the intellectual dimension runs the risk of being slighted.
No wonder Quebeckers are so slighted by what is happening because they take it as a personal slight.
I feel slighted by the fact that every year the area we fish in local waters is getting smaller.
I have never met someone who would be personally slighted about something like the Athabasca tar sands, but perhaps they are.
Supervisors and others kept waiting often feel disrespected or, worse, slighted by an employee's tardiness.
And then I thought, well, I was slighted, in quite a significant way.
This oversensitivity to being slighted in turn provokes the desire to rectify one's situation through retaliation, by lashing out at the offender.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The only effect it had on the position was that Uncle Mo's temporariness got a little boastful, and slighted his permanency.
For many months she had put the subject away, but it was too big to be slighted now.
You had wooed and slighted me, yet you had made me love you, and if you were not for me I swore you should be for no other.
It swam on the water, and dived, but it was slighted by every creature because of its ugliness.
But he admired Hester, and the more she slighted him the more he was determined to force her to like him.
She can never be slighted or disesteemed, while her good temper and benevolence render her a blessing to her companions.
You can bear to think of her, slighted for the daughter of an American tradesman.
The junior high school especially aims to perform this function that is so slighted in the senior high school.
I should not have a doubt of it were she slighted for any other woman in the world than her own mother.
I have been slighted, and taught nothing, and thrown upon myself, and put to work not fit for me.
I shall keep my word, and see that she is n't slighted at my party, for I want her to love me, and go home feeling all right.
Waldemar Fitzurse was rather offended than pleased at the Prince stating thus broadly an opinion, that his daughter had been slighted.
Does he imagine that Olivia is to be slighted with impunity?
We were all but mobbed by the very people who had earlier slighted me.
He called her the victim of slighted love and clever proselytizing.
Sir Percival merely answered by upbraiding his friend with having unjustifiably slighted his wishes and neglected his interests all through the day.
Then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and come home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.
Good, quiet, uncomplaining mother Nature, long slighted and miscalled, still bide, her time and draws to her bosom the most errant of her children.
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