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What is the adjective for slightingly?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs slight and slighten which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

slight
  1. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
  2. Not stout or heavy; slender.
  3. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
  4. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
  5. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Thomas is also exhibiting more obvious signs of agoraphobia, although of a slight degree.”
      “Taylor understands the idiom quite perfectly, and he manages to bring a grandeur and nobility to the admittedly slight work.”
      “There is only a slight chance that we can change his mind.”
slighting
slightsome
  1. Characterised or marked by slight; scornful
slighter
slightish
  1. Somewhat slight
  2. Examples:
    1. “Shepherd was of medium height and slightish build with a serious manner but a dry sense of humour.”
      “Shortish and slightish, he can appear spiky, but is more curious than combative.”
      “The concert began with a slightish piece of Borodin, his Variations over a Russian Theme.”
slighty
  1. (obsolete) slight
  2. Examples:
    1. “The man attacked and slighty injured a policeman outside the station in the Goutte d'Or district in northern Paris.”
      “The letter showed up in the mail the second morning following, its envelope slighty street-stained but otherwise in good order.”
      “His slighty cracked officers became a speciality long before the Goons became fashionable.”
slightest
slighted
slightened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of slighten
slightening
  1. present participle of slighten
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