slights
Dismissive small injuries
Slights are small acts of disrespect or dismissiveness—being overlooked, snubbed, or treated as unimportant.
The word captures offenses that may seem minor but accumulate: She remembered every slight from her childhood.
As a verb, to slight someone is to treat them with such casual disregard: He felt slighted when they didn't invite him.
Deliberate dismissive rejection
- affrontDeliberate public insult
- put-downDisparaging remark
- indignityHumiliating or degrading treatment
- offenseViolation or umbrage
disparagement · disdain · contempt · scorn · derision · mockery · ridicule · rebuff
Misses or surveys
- ignoresRefuses to acknowledge
- disregardsFails to consider
- dismissesTerminates or rejects
- bypassesGoes around instead
excludes · omits · skips · sidelines · undervalues · underestimates · downplays · minimizes
snub
Deliberate dismissive rejection
- affrontDeliberate public insult
- put-downDisparaging remark
- indignityHumiliating or degrading treatment
offense · disparagement · disdain · contempt · scorn · derision · mockery · ridicule · rebuff · sneer
overlooks
Misses or surveys
- ignoresRefuses to acknowledge
- disregardsFails to consider
- dismissesTerminates or rejects
bypasses · excludes · omits · skips · sidelines · undervalues · underestimates · downplays · minimizes · shuns
- verbsjump, be, speak, wait, do
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
- petty behaviorsspite, malice, meanness, nastiness, bitterness
- social frictioninsults, barbs, jibes, snubs, digs
- tauntstaunts, taunt, taunting, neener neener, insults
slightshonors
Recognition for achievement
respects · compliments · praises · esteems · venerates
slightsacknowledges
Confirms awareness of something
recognizes · notices · accepts · attends to · heeds
- not in the slightestComplete emphatic denial
- slight tremor
- slight nod
- feel slighted
- slight bowMinor forward head movement
slight, slightest, slighting, slighted, slighter, slightness