"Drift" is an ambiguous word shadow cabinet ministers use to vent their displeasure but Miliband's shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson, has put detail on the criticism, dismissing as wrong the new leader's policies to keep the higher 50p tax rate and bring in a graduate tax in place of university tuition fees.
Vodafone's chairman has dismissed as "dead wrong" suggestions the company is not paying its fair share into the public purse.
The question of what kind of society we want to live in is, to my mind, even more simple: one in which women are not dismissed as "uninformed" or "wrong" on national TV – or anywhere – for making a choice about their pregnancy, and that goes equally for women who decide to carry their Down's syndrome baby to term, or women who opt for a termination.
That month UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon responded to the shortages of food, water, and health care in Venezuela, as well as to what he identified as the resulting political instability, by saying that the country was experiencing a "humanitarian crisis," an observation that Venezuela's UN delegate, Rafael Ramírez, was quick to dismiss as both "wrong" and "strange".
When they do wrong, their crimes are not dismissed as the misdemeanours of another corporation trying to make a buck.
It is often dismissed as mindless, stupid or empty, which is not always wrong but often beside the point.
Both were taken deep in the draft, dismissed as big-bodied and one-dimensional, yet needed only one full season in the minors to prove the industry wrong.
It was dismissed as trivial.
She was dismissed as alarmist.
