dismissive

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Mr. Layton also took a strip off Mr. Harper for what he described as a dismissive and disdainful attitude towards workers who have lost their jobs.

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  1. adjective Serving to dismiss.
  2. adjective Showing indifference or disregard: a dismissive shrug.

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  • I have gone through several different processes including being grandiose, dismissive, angry, sad and scared. —  Mental Nurse
  • If you are openly dismissive, then you are still little more than an overgrown under-flake. —  blueollie
  • But when you write the kind of dismissive (in my view) stuff you did above here (and have written elsewhere) I must say I wonder. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
  • Every one and two word dismissive response that adds nothing of value to the discourse and blows off your counterpart's input without even giving it a second of consideration.
  • And then he goes on and calls America arrogant, dismissive, and derisive regarding Europe. —  The Corner
 

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