slighting

IPA: sɫˈaɪtɪŋ

The act of giving a slight or snub.
(regional) An act of ignoring or neglecting someone or something; more broadly neglect.
(regional) The action of rejecting someone or something; rejection.
(military) The full or partial demolition of a fortification.

Examples of "slighting" in Sentences

It seems to me that pursuing new ideas is a more worthwhile endeavor than slighting Sec.
More important, they are slighting our warriors and mocking their commitment to this nation.
Maybe that week she'd praised Barbra Streisand or else made some slighting remark about his supreme artistic hero, Alfred Hitchcock.
Other than their abode and perchance their teaching, there is not extremely much slighting disbursement that can parallel in estimate to the support of a redesigned transport.
I am ultimately responsible for my own actions and apologize for any slighting my comments may have caused the true valiant heroes who bore the country's burden during that horrible conflict.
Although finding the Parthenon superior, Byron is by no means slighting mosques, considering that the poet could place only one architectural icon from the West above an entire class of Islamic monuments.
Laugh and be merry -- enjoy the sunshine of your youth; it is a sin to see a young thing sad; but never, never, as you value your womanhood, speak a slighting or irreverent word against God's great laws of righteousness, nor allow such a word to pass unreproved in your presence.
Turns out that Poe's great sleuth, Dupin, in the course of describing his methodology, makes a glancingand slighting reference to a gentleman named Vidocq, whom he immediately dismisses as "a good guesser" lacking "educated thought" and constantly erring "by the very intensity of his investigations."