slighter

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Adjective
  • Trump and his supporters have repeatedly pushed Senate leaders to abolish the filibuster to pass the election bill, but there's also insufficient support to drastically change the chamber's procedures.
    Dan Mangan,Luke Fountain,Kevin Breuninger,Garrett Downs,Ashley Capoot,Justin Papp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • However, inadequate wastewater infrastructure, insufficient funding and a lack of accountability have contributed to one of the worst environmental and public health crises in North America.
    Serge Dedina, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2026
Adjective
  • The complaint alleges that the conduct contributed to two patient deaths linked to inadequate care.
    Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Frustration has mounted over what many Venezuelans saw as an inadequate government response, with soldiers, firefighters, police and emergency services struggling to respond to the scale of the disaster.
    Abigail Williams, NBC news, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • Even lesser-scale incidents like the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal and the Volkswagen emissions scandal erode trust in the institutions that help make our society possible and push it forward.
    Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • About 220,000 need major repair or replacement, and 41,677 are rated poor, also called structurally deficient.
    Alex Krasnok, Scientific American, 25 June 2026
  • What is often misunderstood is that any of these virtuous behaviors can manifest as deficient vices when underdeveloped and as excess vices when strong but unsupported by the other 10 character dimensions, as evidenced by Steve Jobs.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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“Slighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slighter. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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