Slights
[slaits]
Examples
- Yet I do feel irritated against Lady Berwick I confess it: but it is for her slights, or what I fancy was her neglect of my dear departed mother. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Some complain of the slights which are put upon them by relations, and they will tell you sadly of how many evils their old age is the cause. Plato. The Republic.
- Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Rawdon at first felt very acutely the slights which were passed upon his wife, and was inclined to be gloomy and savage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Nora