Definition of "slight"

his own figure, which was formerly so slight

1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak

But no beast ever was so slight,For man, as for his god, to fight;They have more wit, alas! and knowThemselves and us better than so.

1859, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Canto 1, lines 781-784

we frequently have slight Goods and sometimes old and unsaleable Articles

1889 (first published), George Washington, Writings

This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

the wretch who slights the bounty of the skies

1782, William Cowper, Truth

Incontiguously (accent on tig; the rest of the syllables slighted) means in an incontiguous manner.

1915, Josephine Turck Baker, Correct English, volumes 16-17, page 182

Though true of heart, she was somewhat of a coquette in manner; and I was jealous as a Turk. She slighted me in a thousand ways, yet would never acknowledge herself to be in the wrong. She would drive me mad with anger, and then force me to beg her pardon.

1833, Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal

When the parliament had finished the war , they reduced and slighted most of the inland garrison

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707

After your ground is sowne and harrowed, you shall then clotte it, sleight it, and smooth it.

1620, Gervase Markham, Farwell to Hvsbandry

The rogue slighted me into the river.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene v]

Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.

1793, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

But you, you're not allowed You're uninvited An unfortunate slight

1997, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Uninvited”, performed by Alanis Morissette

For till that stownd could never wight him harme,By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XXXVI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie