Slighter
[slaitə]
Definition
(n.) One who slights.
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Examples
- Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence, I remarked. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her father often did the same thing; but his frame was slighter, and when he was weary, Eva would say to him, O, papa, let Tom take me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Almost certainly that ancestor was a smaller and slighter creature than its human descendants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It would be needless to narrate those disastrous occurrences, for which a parallel might be found in any slighter visitation of our gigantic calamity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yours have been of a much slighter kind, spread over a much shorter time. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And now, though it seemed slighter and frailer than ever, it had suddenly hardened to adamant, and he might beat his life out against it in vain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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