Meanings
comparative more dismissably · superlative most dismissably
- In a way that makes someone or something easy to dismiss.
He was not, for example, dismissably minor.
1992, Douglas Robinson Associate Professor of English University of Mississippi, Ring Lardner and the Other, →ISBN, page 1162 more examples
Where Ringo was dismissably cute, George disturbingly strange, Paul sometimes OK but suspiciously maudlin--indeed, where Dylan was depressing, the Stones boring, and the Who moribund--John Lennon, retained our affection and somehow, particularly during the quiet years, earned more of it and gained our respect back as well.
1988 October 7, Bill Wyman, “Reading: Lennon Mania”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2021She had the strangest sense that the City was, simultaneously, both perfectly normal and dismissably unbelievable.
2006, Jane Jensen, Dante's Equation, →ISBN, page 295
Origin
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