slighted

• I had yet to see him the kind and patient companion of the friendless and the slighted--slighted, because poor; the untired listener to long tales of misery--so miserable, that they who told them could not track their dim beginnings, or fix the time in distant childhood when wretchedness was not. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
• There was a whole elaborate science of how to treat the people you met, so that they would not feel slighted--or so that they would feel slighted, according to circumstances To the enjoyment of such a life it was essential that the person should believe in it. —  Sylvia's Marriage
• She only felt that her womanhood had been starved and slighted, and that here was a noble-minded lover of whom she could be proud Some time after this announcement was officially made of the approaching accouchement of the queen. —  Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2
• I suppose he has often been made fun of,--slighted in conversation, taken as a butt for people who thought themselves witty, made to feel as we may suppose a cracked piece of china-ware feels when it is clinked in the company of sound bits of porcelain. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• She had not been slighted, and her heart, therefore, still rose buoyant within her breast The doctor entered the room. —  Doctor Thorne

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