We're not city-states warring against each other with swords and bows, swearing pacts or vendettas over the smallest slights!

But painful humiliation can be a matter of accumulated small slights and slippages as much as dramatic exclusion from the social body.

The smallest slights, whether intended or not, drove Alette into a rage.

Grudges of years past die hard, and small slights are magnified.

Now those logistical problems and small slights belong to someone else.

But if you're vulnerable, then these seemingly small slights are like a large trauma.

She had always made it a policy to forgive slights, both small and large, in the spirit of giving.

Wein's novel illustrates the way in which small slights slowly simmer into true anger over the course of years.

Within that dynamic, small slights assumed enormous importance.

Indeed, resentments over seemingly small slights are felt on both sides of the black-white divide.