“She had the strangest sense that the City was, simultaneously, both perfectly normal and dismissably unbelievable.”

“Many use this term dismissively when they hear of anyone referring to animals as having thoughts or feelings or wishes.”

“He waved the man off dismissively and we all watched as his car clunked and rattled its way out of the parking lot.”

“People have talked dismissively of gimmicks but these gimmicks are going down well in my constituency.”