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# slightingly

«slightingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a scornful way that shows you think little of someone…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (slightingly)

### meaning for a pupil

In a scornful way that shows you think little of someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slightingly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons a character speaks or thinks of someone or something as unimportant, which hurts the one spoken of

### examples

- He spoke slightingly of his little sister's drawing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slightingly/#x1)
- She laughed slightingly at my idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slightingly/#x2)
- The king thought slightingly of the poor fisher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slightingly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slightingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slightingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.