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slighty, a. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈslaɪtɪ|
Also 7 sleighty.
[f. slight a. + -y.]
†1. Superficial; lacking in thoroughness. Obs.
1619J. Dyke Caveat (1620) 19 If so slighty and easie a performance will discharge it. 1650Baxter Saint's R. iii. viii. (1654) 156 The neglect or slighty performance of that great duty. 1671Eachard Obs. Answ. Cont. Clergy 129 Where any thing is advised or commanded after this slothful and slighty way.
†b. Of persons: Negligent, careless. Obs.
1655W. Gurnall Chr. Compl. Arm. vii. 200/1 Till this be done, thou wilt be but sluggish and slighty in thy endeavours for faith. 1661Newcome Diary (Chetham Soc.) 8, I was slighty in secret prayer this morninge.
†2. Slighting, contemptuous; light. Obs.
1642J. Ball Answ. Canne i. 118 In his other writings..he is insolent, censorious, scornfull and slighty. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., Should I say I had slighty thoughts of it [etc.].
3. Slight, unimportant, trivial; also, unsubstantial, slender, weak.
1669W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. xxiv. §4. 317/2 Thou mayst not think thou goest upon a slighty errand. 1679Mansell Narr. Popish Plot Addr. c 2, Nor does it argue more of Wisdom, to rear such a Massive..Structure..upon so slender and sleighty a Foundation. 1713M. Henry Wks. (1855) I. 132/1 To neglect them or make but a short and slighty business of them. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 307 Slighty, slim, weak. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss., Slighty, slight, feeble, insufficient, unenduring. 1882in W. Worc. Gloss. |