Example sentences for: dismissive

How can you use “dismissive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Michiko Kakutani is dismissive in the New York Times , calling it a "glutinous hodgepodge of a book ...

  • If college had remained less important--it once was: Andrew Carnegie for example was dismissive of college graduates--it would have mattered less just what the standards for admission were.

  • Dismissive of those who have questioned America's aggressive annexation of the Southwest, he argues that opponents of annexation were dupes of Britain.

  • The dismissive tone is critical to his entire argument, because if he squarely reflected on the great uncertainty that now exists about the impact of the new treatments, he would undermine the foundation of an exploration of The End.

  • They thought they had him by the legalities on perjury and obstruction of justice, and in attempting to win converts to their cause they may have been more dismissive than they intended about the sex thing.


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