(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.
Snobbish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a true Blairite, Jowell rejected such “snobbish” attacks on the free market in rigged odds.
(2) The Olympics showed that there are sports stars out there who have personalities, which I expect some people were quite snobbish about.
(3) It is snobbish and condescending to mock any creative or practical manual work.
(4) He compared the manner of Nick Clegg , the former Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, with that of Cameron, saying Clegg had an “inbred arrogance (from no less a privileged background than Cameron, though seeming less snobbish because he went to Westminster instead of Eton).” Hillary Clinton intervened in row over Ken Loach’s film festival boycott call Read more One email, written while coalition talks were still going on , said the senior Labour politician Peter Mandelson was playing a “cynical double game” in an attempt to become foreign secretary.
(5) "Foodie" has now pretty much everywhere replaced "gourmet", perhaps because the latter more strongly evokes privilege and a snobbish claim to uncommon sensory discrimination – even though those qualities are rampant among the "foodies" themselves.
(6) I worked very hard over the years not to be in thrall to attitudes that were confining or snobbish.
(7) And like both of them, he is a very good if perhaps underrated writer (by which I mean that it’s easy for literary types to be snobbish about novels that read so smoothly), his imagination always turning outwards, where it fixes with apparent ease on some extraordinary new subject.
(8) And Graham Greene of course – I have enormous regard for everything he wrote, and just by talking about films he illuminated the medium and the art and he was marvellously un-snobbish about popular culture.
(9) He said: “His sneering and snobbish verbal assault says it all about the elite that run this country and their attitude towards the working classes that they expect to transport them.
(10) He said that James's criminals were far removed from "the reality on the streets of south London" and rounded on the Crime Writers Association as "snobbish and stuffy" thanks largely to her and those like her.
(11) I think we are very snobbish in London about condemning people for the colloquial language they use, particularly if it’s not meant with really unpleasant intent.
(12) The Front National has already begun attacking Fillon as a snobbish, political has-been.
(13) Read's austere outlook has been variously characterised – by friends as much as anyone – as "snobbish", "priggish" and "too obviously born to the purple".
(14) "Landlords can't afford to be snobbish about a tenant that is successful," Saunders said.
(15) The Daily Mail editor (and Associated Newspapers editor-in-chief) used a rare public speech at the beginning of the year to accuse the "snobbish" BBC of a "kind of cultural Marxism", stifling political debate and failing to represent the views of its conservative viewers.
(16) Photograph: Murdo MacLeod Paired with Felicity Kendal as his wife, Barbara, and pitted against their formidable, snobbish neighbour Margo Leadbetter (Penelope Keith) and her docile husband, Jerry (Paul Eddington), he gave one of the classic good-natured comedy sitcom performances of our time.
(17) And it was incredibly snobbish, and absolutely not the case that somehow the working classes are incapable of understanding satire.
(18) In one of the wonderful Reith lectures Perry gave last year , he concluded that today’s art establishment is something of a dictatorship, simpering about the avant garde, snobbish towards the middle ground.
(19) As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to impact the 2016 presidential campaign , the Pulitzer prize-winning cultural critic’s often painful personal critique, Negroland – the title refers to the “snobbish”, middle-class, light-skinned African American world she grew up in during her childhood in Chicago – is a powerful historical lens through which to read the current state of “ respectability politics ”.
(20) He liked to study both sides of every conflict and “perhaps because I admired two parents who had diametrically opposed characteristics, the theme of my journalism was often one of reconciliation or of synthesis or simply of relatedness.” He saw the paper as “an extended conversation with the readers, always intellectually lively but never snobbish, exclusive or insiderish”.