‘Did you understand the phrase slightingly?’ he asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

He spoke slightingly of Dickens as a novelist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference

To speak ill or slightingly of anyone, was forbidden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Then, too, she had spoken slightingly of Baldy's legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baldy of Nome] Reference

It galled him to hear his darling spoken of so slightingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

French history, slightingly of Louis XIV., who, in the said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

Prokofiev spoke slightingly of his piano concerto in F major.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhapsody Imbued] Reference

The Marquis looked slightingly at the signed and sealed paper which.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of Montrose] Reference

He never speaks slightingly of his enemy unless he well deserves it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

If any one spoke slightingly of doctors in his presence, he would exclaim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anton Chekhov] Reference

Sydney Smith spoke slightingly of it as the 'nonsensical penny postage scheme.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

Of the metre of this drama he spoke slightingly, and said according to his taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference

Nevertheless, it seems to me that a datum that preceded it was slightingly treated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Directly after meeting her she asked me if I knew you, and I spoke slightingly of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference

But the young man glanced slightingly at these; the changes overhead had all his attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on a Tower] Reference

"Mrs. Kynaston," he said, sternly, "I must ask you not to speak slightingly of Miss Nevill.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

The Asiatic lion is sometimes spoken of slightingly, as if it was a feeble creature and almost extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

The game is not of high repute all the same, and they are somewhat slightingly spoken of as "only pan fish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

The method of the systematists is slightingly to give a few instances of the unholy, and dispose of the few.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Such being the case, he did not like to hear the West Cork with the Ballydehob branch spoken of so slightingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Clerks] Reference

Hearing a person always pitied and spoken slightingly of does not predispose any one to fall in love with that person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

Yet ethical Americans shake their heads over such philosophies, and some of them even speak slightingly of philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

"Birds of a feather," they maintained; then spoke of her slightingly in public places, and sent her bouquets innumerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

I replied, That he was a very unworthy man, if it were true, to speak slightingly of a family, which was as good as his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

I would not for a moment be thought to treat slightingly the very smallest degree of favor they may feel disposed to show me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

Gallo-Roman Epoch, and cats appeared in the heraldry of that date; but writers of those ages speak rather slightingly of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference

And if I have spoken slightingly of this latter poet, it was only in contrast with Virgil, and in view of his strained Latinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

Thereat, with a smile he slightingly took hold of the tail with his left hand; but could not move that tail of the mighty monkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

He professed to regard them both in the light of professional beggars, and he never lost an opportunity of speaking slightingly of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

They are, I believe, sometimes spoken slightingly of by men of learning; I, however, as an unlearned man, think them particularly useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference

Of all earthly phenomena this of motherhood is the most marvelous, and naturally the least understood, and the most slightingly regarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference

The men spoke slightingly of her to their wives, lightly of her to each other, and made idiots of themselves when they were alone with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference