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Slight Slighted Insults Treating Views Feelings Important Felt

query
If you are s_______, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.If you are slighted, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.
They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.
It isn't a slight on my husband that I enjoy my evening class.
...slighting references to her age.
word slight
full-definition
adjective
Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity.
Doctors say he has made a slight improvement.
We have a slight problem.
A slight smile flickered over his face.
He's not the slightest bit worried.
A slight person has a fairly thin and delicate looking body.
She is smaller and slighter than Christie.
...a slight, bespectacled figure.
...a slightly built man.
verb
If you are slighted, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.
They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.
It isn't a slight on my husband that I enjoy my evening class.
...slighting references to her age.
inflections slighterslightestslightsslightingslightedslightlyslighting
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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