slightingly

I was not speaking slightingly of the man.

He did not say that slightingly, as many a man might have: he knew she was a businesswoman in her own right.

She said them slightingly, but not with displeasure.

And he spoke slightingly to me and would have driven me forth.

Cash looked slightingly down at the assayer's report.

The nostril is slightingly positioned to one side.

Punish him who speaks slightingly to us.

Vic remembered that the vault expert had spoken slightingly of the concrete laying and the wall construction.

Dealing with a sharply restricted familial world, it's what is sometimes called, slightingly, "a woman's book," or "a domestic novel."

Her glance swept slightingly over him.

'God forbid that any man should think so slightingly of my favourite penitent.

Don't tell me he spoke slightingly.

"You talk of the shareholders in Paris as though you yourself owned no shares in the plantation," he said slightingly.

-but he had never heard a pilot or scientist of Bykov's generation speak slightingly about him.

"Yet we were concerned, Bhapa and I, for he spoke slightingly to us, foretelling death.

Three of them were what Faro slightingly referred to as "used" men-those who had somehow displeased their mistress-wives.

"I saw no bigness about HIM," Bill cried slightingly.

Often used slightingly, by the mid 20th century, particularly in the United States, it suggested that its target is extremely unsophisticated.

Traub tells me that "the word is used slightingly, to refer to the class of people who foster and perpetuate conventional wisdom.

Grundy demanded slightingly.

"We needn't magnify the merit, Mrs. William," he rejoined slightingly.

He talked of felons ... slightingly, sneeringly.

A scarier experience than mere threats and abuse, however, is the social situation in which one is thrown together with a writer one has slightingly written about.

'Not much,' said Mr. Micawber, slightingly.

It does not seem ever to have grown, and it was slightingly called Eleinou Polis, "the wretched town".