Sentence examples for a dismissive answer from inspiring English sources

The question received the Sir Alex Ferguson glare and a dismissive answer.

Portes had drafted a dismissive reply.

Thus it was surprising to learn of President Obama's dismissive answer to an "online town hall" question about whether legalizing marijuana might, from an economic point of view, do more good than harm (Up Front, Aug. 5).

In a 2009 episode of his HBO show, "Real Time," Bill Maher and his panel of guests — Mos Def, Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchens (Scotch in hand) — pilloried President Obama for his dismissive answer to an "online town hall" question about whether it would make economic sense for America to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana.

That was the dismissive answer of Speaker John Boehner on Thursday, when asked if the House would restore the food stamp program it had just coldly ripped out of the farm bill.

But his dismissive answer is off the mark.

He said he was unhappy with the "dismissive answers being provided" by Canberra.

It's dismissive answers like that gave reason to the cost of electricity becoming one of the biggest issues in Ontario politics today.

"Looks like you're trying to boil the ocean here," the vendor said, using a dismissive engineering phrase for an answer too large for the problem.

Chanel made a dismissive noise.

Helou gave a dismissive nod.