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dismissive
adjective as in disdainful
adjective as in scornful
adjective as in prideful
Weak matches
- aloof
- assuming
- audacious
- autocratic
- biggety
- boastful
- bossy
- bragging
- cavalier
- cheeky
- cocky
- cold-shoulder
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- domineering
- egotistic
- egotistical
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperious
- insolent
- know-it-all
- lofty
- lordly
- narcissistic
- on an ego trip
- on one's high horse
- overbearing
- overweening
- peremptory
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-important
- self-satisfied
- smug
- sniffy
- snippy
- snobbish
- snooty
- snotty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- swaggering
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
Example Sentences
The White House was dismissive when asked for a response to Harris's comments about the president.
The White House earlier on Friday appeared dismissive of Ottawa’ s efforts to keep talks open.
"The colour of my skin meant everything was stacked against me. The language they used and how dismissive and mocking they were, was both misogynist and racist," she said.
Her daughter Dawn Johnson said when she raised concerns that her mum had voiced wanting to end her life in November 2013, the ward manager had been dismissive.
Here I have to confess to being dismissive of the most common version of AI doom, in which superintelligent machines do away with humanity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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