Translation for "slightingly" to spanish
Translation examples
At close range I am able to understand why people speak so slightingly of him.
Más de cerca, soy capaz de entender por qué la gente habla tan despectivamente de él.
Arthur’s father had disliked their love and had written slightingly, after Arthur’s death, and before Alfred had ventured to let Arthur’s poems see the light, of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Al padre de Arthur no le gustaba aquel tipo de relación y había escrito despectivamente, tras la muerte de Arthur y antes de que Alfred se hubiese arriesgado a dejar que los poemas a Arthur viesen la luz, sobre los sonetos de Shakespeare.
Or if his father should happen to be a novus homo, as we slightingly call mushroom gentlemen, who have made their fortune by merchandizing, then he will begin with his grandfather (a God-fearing yeoman of such and such a place, respectable to his neighbours) and write of him as related by blood to a certain great house;
O si se da el caso de que su padre sea un novus homo, como solemos llamar despectivamente a los caballeros advenedizos que han hecho fortuna con el comercio, entonces comenzará con su abuelo (un agricultor de tal o cual lugar, hombre devoto y respetado por sus vecinos) y en su descripción escribirá que es pariente consanguíneo de cierta gran familia;
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