dismissing

comparative more dismissing · superlative most dismissing

1. Dismissive.

   Aline was disillusioned and very dismissing of people not true to their word.

   2021, Lavona Fercho, Prime Ministers’ Wives: Those Who Endure

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   When a dismissing patient comes in for therapy, however, positive arousal and laughter may play an important role in establishing the therapeutic attachment bond.

   2012, Judith Kay Nelson, What Made Freud Laugh: An Attachment Perspective on Laughter, page 171

   Her luminous tawny eyes were cool and emotionless, her perfectly tinted lips held only the most dismissing of smiles, except when it came to her friend.

   2024, Anne Stuart, Blind Date from Hell

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dismiss