| He was the father of experimental science, the sharpest thinker of his time, a great debater and a dismissive polemicist. |
| Kitsch, I decided, is art that bears a cynical or dismissive relation to life. |
| His literary criticism, often intemperate, was cruelly dismissive of his fellow Irish writers. |
| She is dismissive of talk that the island is any less deserving of public support than any other community in Scotland. |
| As artists we enjoy being provocatively inventive, suspicious of authority, and dismissive of the past. |
| This dismissive treatment of local residents by the council is disgraceful. |
