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slighted

adjective C2
  1. Cheated; short-changed; ripped off.
  2. Treated as unimportant or not worthy of attention.
  3. Treated with disdain or neglect; ignored disrespectfully.
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You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 337 · B2
Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 9 · B2
“Which do you mean?” and turning round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till, catching her eye, he withdrew his own, and coldly said, “She is tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt _me_; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 10 · B2

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