slight

adj. small; light, frail, delicate; slender, slim; lacking substance; trifling, unimportant

v. treat with indifference, ignore; treat with disdain, disparage, snub, insult, affront

n. insult, snub, indignity, act or word which expresses contempt or disrespect

A slight is a perceived insult, from a speaker/writer to a listener/reader.Slights, although bearing resemblance to the word slightly, meaning of lesser order or lesser magnitude, may in fact carry a strong tendency to arouse anger and/or doubt in the listener/reader.A slight will usually result in some vengeance or revenge against the speaker/writer, or at least further investigation as to the speaker/writer's intent. Such investigation aims to resolve ambiguity, by determining what exactly the speaker/writer was trying to communicate in the original slight.
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Noun
1. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
(synonym) rebuff
(hypernym) discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity
(hyponym) snub, cut, cold shoulder
(derivation) cold-shoulder
Verb
1. pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"
(synonym) cold-shoulder
(hypernym) dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore
(derivation) rebuff
Adjective
1. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
(synonym) flimsy, tenuous, thin
(similar) weak
2. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"
(similar) little(a)
3. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
(synonym) slender, slim
(similar) thin, lean

(v. t.)
To throw heedlessly.
  

(v. t.)
To overthrow; to demolish.
  

(v. t.)
To make even or level.
  

(v. t.)
To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.
  

(superl.)
Not stout or heavy; slender.
  

(superl.)
Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; -- applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.
  

(superl.)
Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
  

(n.)
The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
  

(n.)
Sleight.
  

(adv.)
Slightly.
  

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