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  • adverb In a dismissive manner

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dismissive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It is unfair, unreasonable and ill-mannered to demean someone who has dedicated much of her career to NASA; you display remarkable ignorance in dismissively asserting that Lori Garver is a "political opportunist".

    It's Time To Go, Mike - NASA Watch 2008

  • Political control of the FSA is a key question for the main opposition grouping, the Syrian National Council SNC, which is based in Turkey and referred to dismissively by the regime as the "Istanbul council".

    Syria: attack on Homs continues as Assad talks of dialogue - Tuesday 7 February 2012

  • They were treated as nonentities by the legal and social adjudicators of British later, Australian Tasmania, allowed grudgingly to occupy land on the islands without ever being acknowledged as its owners, and referred to dismissively as “half-castes” or, vaguely, as “the Islanders.”

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • They were treated as nonentities by the legal and social adjudicators of British later, Australian Tasmania, allowed grudgingly to occupy land on the islands without ever being acknowledged as its owners, and referred to dismissively as “half-castes” or, vaguely, as “the Islanders.”

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Obama "dismissively" referred-in a "tone laced with contempt" - to the late progressive and populist U.S.

    Holding Progressive Things Together 2008

  • KURTZ: If we're going to talk about CBS, Frank Rich, as part of the liberal media, certainly Jonah seems to enthusiastically endorse that description, do you think the same standards aren't being applied, for example, to Fox News, which in your column last week you called, kind of dismissively, just GOP TV?

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004 2004

  • "I told downtown about 'em," Coe said dismissively, meaning, she supposed, the INS.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • Speaking that way, kind of dismissively, gives the Democrats a bit of an opening, I think.

    CNN Transcript May 6, 2001 2001

  • The idea of treating other nations dismissively is toxic.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The idea of treating other nations dismissively is toxic.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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