dismissably

adv

dismissably

adv

Etymology From dismiss + -ably.

1

In a way that makes someone or something easy to dismiss.

  • 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 2021:
  • He was not, for example, dismissably minor.1992, Douglas Robinson Associate Professor of English University of Mississippi, Ring Lardner and the Other, →ISBN, page 116:
1 more example
  • She had the strangest sense that the City was, simultaneously, both perfectly normal and dismissably unbelievable.2006, Jane Jensen, Dante's Equation, →ISBN, page 295:

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