What's the difference between dismiss and disregard?

Dismiss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
  • (v. t.) To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
  • (v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
  • (n.) Dismission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
  • (2) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (3) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (4) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
  • (5) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
  • (6) They also dismiss those who suggest that the current record-low interest rates mean countries could safely stimulate growth by raising their borrowing levels higher: Economists simply have little idea how long it will be until rates begin to rise.
  • (7) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (8) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
  • (9) The prime minister sent back a letter dismissing his allegations.
  • (10) Francis dismissed the suggestion that changing the fine defaulting policy would significantly reduce the prisoner population, saying defaulters made up less than 0.4% of the total prison population, both male and female.
  • (11) But the rest of Israeli society has its own reasons to dismiss Bibi.
  • (12) His employer, Billund city council, has denied that obesity was among the reasons for Kaltoft’s dismissal.
  • (13) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
  • (14) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
  • (16) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
  • (17) The dismissals were prompted by their participation in a racist orgy during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip to the homeland of the club’s billionaire owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
  • (18) Another senior member of Abdullah's team dismissed the audit as a sham.
  • (19) We can confirm that Oscar Pistorius’s leave to appeal has been denied … The court dismissed the application for leave to appeal because there are are no prospects of success,” Luvuyo Mfaku, spokesperson of the National Prosecuting Authority, told reporters.
  • (20) When physicians dismiss illness because ascertainable "disease" is absent, they fail to meet their socially assigned responsibility.

Disregard


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience.
  • (n.) The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For this reason, these observations should not be disregarded.
  • (2) Many times the nasal airway is disregarded as the source of airway difficulty if small catheters can be passed.
  • (3) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (4) She notes that a proposed bill to limit treatment for handicapped newborns under 28 days old is regarded by many as a worse alternative than the present disregard of existing law.
  • (5) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
  • (6) All other movements in the frontal, horizontal, and sagittal plane can be disregarded or are the result of this movement.
  • (7) We’ve not even begun to discuss the ethical dimensions surrounding commercial surrogacy and anonymous donor conception, both of which are needed to deliver ‘marriage equality’.” Asylum seekers and human rights Paul Power, chief executive of the refugee council of Australia, said no government had disregarded public opinion more on the issue of refugees and asylum seekers than Abbott’s.
  • (8) Despite the propagation of imaging techniques in recent years, brain neoplasms are still identified too late in many cases, not least because of a disregard or misinterpretation of early psychiatric symptoms.
  • (9) The bill, voted through a panel of the house energy and power subcommittee, would compel Obama to over-rule demands for a further review of the project from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and disregard local opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline from landowners along its 1,700-mile route.
  • (10) - Although small quantitatively, unwanted phagocytosis by the reticulo endothelial system which may occur must not be disregarded and may lower the state of resistance of the organism.
  • (11) In its proposals the MoJ is displaying a callous disregard for the rights of its citizens, as client choice and quality of legal service have been sacrificed on the altar of price competition.
  • (12) We conclude that incubation of oxacillin disk diffusion tests for longer than 24 h in conjunction with disregard for resistance to other classes of antimicrobial agents may result in an unacceptably high degree of false resistance results.
  • (13) Linear discriminant analysis of the subtests disregarding the verbal-performance dichotomy yielded considerable increase in hit-rate in prediction of laterality of lesion.
  • (14) Skeptics have disregarded that even lyophilized preparations of demonstrated activity will lose effect when stored above -80 degrees C. This explains some inconsistencies of results and difficulties in repetition.
  • (15) The other film was edited disregarding these rules.
  • (16) Not criticised, not accommodated, just disregarded.
  • (17) Good experiences in the therapy of chronic heart insufficiency are present above all for hydralazine and prazosin as well as increasingly also for captopril, when vasodilating and at the same time positively inotropic medicaments are disregarded.
  • (18) If a few exceptions are disregarded, the several somatic cell types of a differentiated organism all have an identical genome.
  • (19) Technical hazard and unsuitability in malignant ampullary tumors have unfortunately led to a disregard for this operation that is unwarranted.
  • (20) In a joint statement the chapels said:"It shows management's utter disregard for the loyalty and dedication that their staff show every day in their efforts to produce quality newspapers and magazines, and sends out a deeply unpleasant message: no matter your experience or your commitment, everything is rated by cost."