Slight
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A slight is a perceived insult, from a speaker/writer to a listener/reader.
Slights, although bearing resemblence to the word slightly, meaning of lesser order or lesser magnitude, may in fact carry a strong tendency to arouse anger and/or doubt in the listener/reader.
A slight will usually result in some vengeance or revenge against the speaker/writer, or at least further investigation as to the speaker/writer's intent. Such investigation aims to resolve ambiguity, by determining what exactly the speaker/writer was trying to communicate in the original slight.
