Usually means: Rejecting with disdain or scorn.
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  1. dismissively: Merriam-Webster
  2. dismissively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dismissively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dismissively: Vocabulary.com
  5. dismissively: Wordnik
  6. dismissively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dismissively: Wiktionary
  8. dismissively: Dictionary.com
  9. dismissively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dismissively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a dismissive manner

Similar:
dismissingly, disdainfully, disapprovingly, deprecatingly, inappreciatively, insouciantly, derisively, demeaningly, deprecatorily, dismissably, more...

Opposite:
respectfully, deferentially, courteously

Types:
condescendingly, patronizingly, snootily, superiorly, more...

Phrases:
wave dismissively, wave hand dismissively, dismissively waved, say dismissively, wave hands dismissively, more...

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Similar:
dismissingly, disdainfully, disapprovingly, deprecatingly, inappreciatively, insouciantly, derisively, demeaningly, deprecatorily, dismissably, more...

Opposite:
respectfully, deferentially, courteously

Types:
condescendingly, patronizingly, snootily, superiorly, more...

Phrases:
wave dismissively, wave hand dismissively, dismissively waved, say dismissively, wave hands dismissively, more...



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