Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a disparaging manner;
- Example: "these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'"[syn: disparagingly, slightingly]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slightingly \Slight"ing*ly\, adv.
In a slighting manner.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
slightingly
adv 1: in a disparaging manner; "these mythological figures are
described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'"
[syn: disparagingly, slightingly]