Words similar to brushed

Example sentences for: brushed

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Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules.
The administration has brushed off the charges with the same deft techniques--the dodge, the denial, and the claim of irrelevancy--that characterized its handling of Flytrap.
He didn't budge when Gore urged him to stand and accept the challenge, and Bradley's aides brushed it aside, saying there would be "plenty of debates" down the road.
They don't care whether House Republicans feel "ignored," "brushed off," or "discredited."
When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was "true to her character."