"dismiss" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Samuel Johnson famously dismissed it as "unresisting imbecility," while Shaw, no Shakespeare fan, found it "stagy trash."
- Later 19th century writers had little use for verse satire, Pope, or Dryden; Matthew Arnold famously dismissed them as "classics of our prose."
- When she tried to visit Picasso in his Paris studio, he famously dismissed her with the telling remark: "Madame, you will find the lingerie department on the second floor."
- But it was Truman who famously dismissed the Hiss investigation as a "red herring."
- There will be no rewards for negativism, no prizes for those whom Lady Thatcher famously dismissed as "moaning minnies".
- Voltaire famously dismissed Canada as Quelques arpents de neige, "some acres of snow".
- Presaging the shift in thinking in the 19th century, Bentham famously dismissed the idea of natural rights as "nonsense on stilts".
- He famously dismissed bebop as "a form of music distinct from jazz".
- In 1990, before the current name was adopted, Charles Haughey famously dismissed a CMRS report Must the Poor always Wait?
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