slightingly
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slightingly englanniksi
In a slighting manner; belittlingly, contemptuously.
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(RQ:Richardson Pamela)
(RQ:Boswell Johnson)
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) & Rivington for (publishers)|J. G. & F. Rivington,(nb...)|year=1832|pages=145–146|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PR7CJ2x73tkC&pg=RA1-PA146|oclc=5906640|passage=In order to enter with more discrimination into the style of our different authors, read often "Blair's Lectures." They are, I believe, sometimes spoken slightingly of by men of learning; I, however, as an unlearned man, think them particularly useful.
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(quote-book)&93; is fond of gossip, and apt to speak slightingly of some of his friends, but is loyal to others.
(RQ:Hamsun Hunger)
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=M. McBride|Robert Medill McBride & Company|year=1915|page=104|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/rivetingrandfath00cabe/page/104/mode/1up|oclc=944250|passage=The colonel touched upon the time when buzzards, in the guise of carpet-baggers, had battened upon the recumbent form; and spoke slightingly of divers persons of antiquity as compared with various Confederate leaders, whose names were greeted with approving nods and ripples of polite enthusiasm.