Associations to the word «Slightingly»

Wiktionary

SLIGHTINGLY, adverb. (archaic) in a slighting manner, belittlingly

Dictionary definition

SLIGHTINGLY, adverb. In a disparaging manner; "these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope