Neither Chaucer himself nor his amiable parson would have spoken slightingly of other men's labours.
There is nothing to shew that Chaucer here speaks slightingly of the French spoken by the Prioress, though this view is commonly adopted by newspaper-writers who know only this one line of Chaucer, and cannot forbear to use it in jest.
I don't want to speak too slightingly of these verbal critics;--how can I, who am so fond of talking about errors and vulgarisms of speech?
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightinglyor suspiciously.
Peasants and traders," she added sublimely, "may talk slightingly of women; but no man can be a true knight who does.
He was conscious during each course of doing something wrong or clumsy; and the lackeys, as they bent over him in offering the dishes, breathed slightingly on his neck.
Whoever had heard Johannes then would not have said that, only so short a time ago, he had thought slightingly of his little friend.
The doctor's eye fellslightingly upon them, which was not wonderful.
Perhaps Samuel Johnson, who spoke slightingly of Prior’s verses, enjoyed them more than he was willing to own.
Johnson speaks slightingly of his lyrics; but with due deference to the great Samuel, Prior’s seem to me amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous of English lyrical poems.
I'm sure I don't want to speak slightingly of money," returned Cyril, rebelliously.
I know it is dangerous to speak slightingly of it in these days, but between us, with only the walls to hear, do you like it?
My dear count," cried Madame d'Arlincourt, "I cannot permit you to speak slightingly of our philosophers.
Cecil, in her vexation at having her private feelings suspected, spoke slightingly of Lord Averil.
It is very rude to speak as slightingly as I did of the former owner.
It is very rude to speak soslightingly of land that behaves as beautifully as mine does," Jerry said, with a smile that atoned for the trace of sarcasm in her voice.
I was afraid of a quarrel between Dr Johnson and Mr M'Aulay, who talked slightingly of the lower English clergy.
The Jealous Wife still keeps the stage, and does not deserve to be so slightingly spoken of: but there were private reasons which might possibly warp Mr. Walpole's judgment on the works of Colman.
The early historians speak very slightinglyof this man.
She dreaded to encounter his eye, lest it might look slightingly upon her.
So that in the meantime it seems unwise to speak slightingly of democracy, lest we thereby help the Powers, both here and elsewhere, which are fighting for something very much worse.
But the young man glanced slightingly at these; the changes overhead had all his attention.
Now, don't think slightingly of what so many good men have laid down as necessary to be done.
No matter what, and whether on land, or water; enough for the conceited fellows to think they are being slightingly received.
Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talkedslightingly of Hamilton.
When a bookseller ventured to say something rather slightingly of Dr.
The London Times saw fit to speak slightingly of Mazzini, and Carlyle wrote the editors in noble indignation.
Fortune changed; the very day on which Cavour submitted, the Austrian government replied slightingly to the English proposal and stated that Austria would itself call upon Piedmont to disarm.
To Balzac, besides, it was blasphemy in Sue that he spokeslightingly of the century which to this Legitimist was the grandest epoch in French history, slightingly of Louis XIV.
Thus then we have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost all actually engaged in the work of evangelization; and if this be so, who are we to dare to speak slightingly of such a work?
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