Examples of dismissive

• The older generation becomes defensive and the youth dismissive about the prevailing agrarian moral order.

• He is dismissive of the whole idea of globalisation.

• But these references are very, very brief and somewhat dismissive.

• Some are ambivalent about or even outright dismissive of the -edgling scholarly competition.

• It is also perhaps too dismissive of variable annuities.

• Worse was the seemingly dismissive and unsympathetic position of many of those in a position to ameliorate the struggling of so many thousands.

• Although this had been politically useful at the time, the chancellor himself was dismissive about dispatches as a historical source.

• But the editor is rather dismissive of what he terms 'a more traditional agenda based on equality and redistribution' (p. 246).