Slighter

(n.) One who slights.

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• Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence, I remarked. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Her father often did the same thing; but his frame was slighter, and when he was weary, Eva would say to him, O, papa, let Tom take me. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Almost certainly that ancestor was a smaller and slighter creature than its human descendants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It would be needless to narrate those disastrous occurrences, for which a parallel might be found in any slighter visitation of our gigantic calamity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yours have been of a much slighter kind, spread over a much shorter time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And now, though it seemed slighter and frailer than ever, it had suddenly hardened to adamant, and he might beat his life out against it in vain. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

整理:塔尼娅