| One reason why we are likely to speak slightingly of the ethics of the politician is that he can never exhibit his good qualities systematically. |
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| Do you consider the best points of most people and only rarely speak slightingly of them? |
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| He has been slightingly treated by many Scottish historians, but he had little opportunity to reveal his abilities and there is no contemporary comment on his character. |
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| Flavia spoke slightingly of him, yet encouraged him to pursue her. |
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| If someone treats him slightingly, he perceives that as a deliberate and heinous attack. |
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| He is fond of gossip, and apt to speak slightingly of some of his friends, but is loyal to others. |
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| There is no surer sign of intellectual ill-breeding, says Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in On the Art of Writing, than to speak, even to feel, slightingly of any knowledge oneself does not happen to possess. |
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| The valuation he places upon his services is likely to be mirrored in the reaction which others have to him, so the worker who speaks slightingly of his company belittles himself. |
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| I was afraid of a quarrel between Dr. Johnson and Mr. M'Aulay, who talked slightingly of the lower English clergy. |
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