1. One should not think slightingly of the paradoxical.

2. If I wished to think slightingly of any body's children, it should not be of my own, however.

3. He had spoken slightingly of women's education in general, and had said that Hannah, Anna's English protegee, had not the slightest need to know anything of physics.

4. Obama described Putin slightingly last week as having "one foot in the past".

5. Stella was forced to hold her tongue when Dotty or Babs Osborne spoke slightingly of Meredith.

6. On 30 January that year, Connecticut representative Roger Griswold got upset when Vermont's Matthew Lyon spoke slightingly of Griswold's home state.

7. Men spoke highly of Khakassia's soil, which was rich, and slightingly of its climate, which was unsettled and dry.

8. If he had any thought of living, he could not have said that in that slightingly cold tone.