Quote
Quote verb - To make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically.
Usage example: quoted Thomas Jefferson's views on liberty in her paper on the American Revolution
Slight
Slight verb - To cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in.
Both words in one sentence
- With some slight re-purposing, this is a word-for-word quote from an actual medical journal from over 150 years ago.
Source: Genius Bonus / Web Original - Everyone Is Gay: Yahtzee theorized that everyone is a burly gay man in Yahtzee's Minecraft version of Rapture, since he thinks 'men' sounds more homoerotic than 'man' in his slight misquote "No Gods or Kings, only Men", with the original quote being "No Gods or Kings, Only Man".
Source: Lets Play / Let's Drown Out - The break at the end of the guitar solo in "Rest In Peace" features a musical quote from Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)".
Source: Mythology Gag / Music
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Slight and Quote. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/quote/slight
Quote & Slight. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/quote/slight>.
Slight or Quote. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/quote/slight.
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