What is another word for slights?

Pronunciation: [slˈa͡ɪts] (IPA)

Slights are actions or remarks that are meant to insult or hurt someone. Synonyms for slights include insults, affronts, snubs, jabs, barbs, put-downs, taunts, jibes, and digs. These words all refer to intentional or unintentional acts or words that can be perceived as disrespectful, demeaning, or dismissive. The use of any of these words depends on the context in which they are used. They can be used in social, cultural, and personal situations. It is important to be aware of the connotations each word carries to avoid causing unintended harm or offense to others.

What are the hypernyms for Slights?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Slights

  • What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
    Richard M. Nixon
  • A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
    Seneca
  • What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
    Richard Milhous Nixon
  • Lives there a man whose sole delights Are trivial pomp and city noise, Hardening a heart that loathes or slights What every natural heart enjoys?
    William Wordsworth
  • It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupieth it.
    Francis Bacon

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