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as in insulted
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in
the dancers felt slighted by the harsh comments of the judges
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as in isolated
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
as a temp worker, she often feels slighted by the people she has to work with
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as in disrespected
to show contempt for
music critics who slight any style of music that doesn't fit their personal taste
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as in ignored
to fail to give proper attention to
slighted several major authors in her survey of 20th-century fiction
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Recent Examples of slighted
But try to understand why your mom's feeling slighted.
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Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
Paramount feels slighted and discriminated against in the sale process.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
If Alabama loses the Iron Bowl to a meh Auburn team with an interim coach, Crimson Tide fans are probably going to be more concerned about their own coach than whether the selection committee slighted their team for a second straight season.
—Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
Mitchell had long held the publication in extremely low regard after being misogynistically slighted in one of its 1971 issues.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
Prince Harry also reportedly informed the royal family of his events in advance, so there would be no reason for anyone to feel slighted by his announcement.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2025
The head coach has seen firsthand what his former quarterback can do when he's slighted.
—Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Jones, again, slighted the punt coverage with a 61-yard return to the Carolina 14-yard line.
—Mike Kaye
september 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2025
Along with Immunis, the competing teams include a biotech company run by his best friend and several longevity clinics that felt slighted by Diamandis’s claims that Fountain Life is superior to its peers.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slighted
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Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.—
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But there’s a big difference between knowing that a relative is a pill and loving them through it and being rudely insulted by a relative and just sucking it up.—
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Longbow designed the cabin to keep drivers involved rather than isolated.—
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Public conversations about loneliness tend to collapse a distinction between feeling lonely and being socially isolated—the latter is an objective state that doesn’t inevitably mean a person feels the negative emotions of loneliness.—
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While the Steelers might be disrespected on a national scale after an up-and-down season, the Texans can't take the bait.—
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Employees said they felt disrespected by the process and disrupted from their prior jobs, which included coaching new teachers, providing restorative justice programs and offering specialized services like those for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.—
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Even humble fiber, often ignored in favor of flashy nutrients, plays a massive role.—
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The Legislature should also consider the fact that Florida’s public integrity laws are all too frequently ignored.—
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But Kelce wasn't offended, The Good Wife alum recalled.—
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Kelce, however, wasn’t offended, the Best Medicine star shared.—
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a liberal Democrat with a pragmatist bent, instantly rejected the suggestion that Mamdani represented the new face of the Democratic Party.—
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Demonstrators argued that taxpayer money should not be used to harm or kill innocent people and rejected claims that the killing of Good was an act of self-defense.—
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Even if the 23rd French president’s time behind bars is cut short, the sound of any jailhouse door hitting him in the rear would be a sweet one for the many, many who disdained his right-wing politics and spectacular thirst for attention.—
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And he’d been effectively frozen-out by an offense that forgot how to move the ball.—
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“Slighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slighted. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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