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单词 dismissive
释义
dismissive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈsmɪs.ɪv/us
/dɪˈsmɪs.ɪv/
showingthat you do notthinksomething isworthconsidering:
表现轻视；认为不值得考虑
He's so dismissiveofanybody else'ssuggestions.他拒绝考虑其他任何人的建议。
a dismissiveattitude轻蔑的态度
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Treating as unimportant
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dismissively
(Definition ofdismissivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dismissive| American Dictionary

dismissive
adjective
us
/dɪsˈmɪs·ɪv/
showingthat youthinksomething or someone is notimportantand notworthconsidering:
a dismissive,angrylook
(Definition ofdismissivefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdismissive

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The older generation becomes defensive and the youthdismissiveabout the prevailing agrarian moral order.
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He isdismissiveof the whole idea of globalisation.
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But these references are very, very brief and somewhatdismissive.
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Some are ambivalent about or even outrightdismissiveof the -edgling scholarly competition.
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It is also perhaps toodismissiveof variable annuities.
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Worse was the seeminglydismissiveand unsympathetic position of many of those in a position to ameliorate the struggling of so many thousands.
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Although this had been politically useful at the time, the chancellor himself wasdismissiveabout dispatches as a historical source.
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But the editor is ratherdismissiveof what he terms 'a more traditional agenda based on equality and redistribution' (p. 246).
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The discussion of ethical issues in the introductory section is also rather summary anddismissive.
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Asked whether a forum where such exchanges could take place would be useful, all were initially at the least reticent, if notdismissive.
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The first inter-party or coalition government (1948-51) was somewhatdismissiveof the group.
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Parental rejection included behaviors that weredismissiveof the child's needs for nurturance.
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He was consistentlydismissiveof what were obviously, at the time, serious dangers and hardships.
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Not only are these assertions overstated anddismissive, but also they are levelled against a small and highly select number of sources.
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In the first case, the caregiver, when challenged with his partner's illness and disease progression, either becamedismissiveand angry or avoided caregiving.
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