Sentence examples for dismissive words from inspiring English sources

But after a particularly bad beating in a high school tournament, three dismissive words staggered Miranda.

Journalists have been out amassing public opinion when there is still none, with most Pakistanis treating the speech with dismissive words.

When asked about the incident weeks later, Jeter responded that nothing Curtis had said bothered him -- dismissive words, wielded like a fly swatter.

Lewis points in particular toward the textbook's use of the words appear and only: dismissive words such as these suggest that predicates of value are merely projections of the inner state of the speaker and have no significance.

BEIJING — Eight dismissive words from a male Communist Party official made up Liu Ping's mind last March — she would run for the local parliament, joining a growing global mainstream of women seeking political power.

His most dismissive words are reserved for President Bush, but he doesn't really see that much difference between Mr. Bush and Bill Clinton Mr. Clintonn's imperialism, he suggests, would simply have been a kinder, gentler sort.

Hockney later characterised that world in a single dismissive word: greyness.

There is a nice dismissive word that applies to all other buildings: "astylar".

And let us stop using the word pensioner – indiscriminately tagged on to anyone of 60+ and used as a dismissive word linked to being helpless.

"If I knocked it 40 to 50 yards to feet I used to get a lot of personal satisfaction, but Cloughie summed up passes like that in one dismissive word – 'decoration'".

Kelley says Jobs hated the impersonal typefaces and invented his own dismissive word to describe the feeling they conveyed: "Meep".