Definition of "dismissively" [dismissively]

• In a dismissive manner (adverb)

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• "It is unfair, unreasonable and ill-mannered to demean someone who has dedicated much of her career to NASA; you display remarkable ignorance in dismissively asserting that Lori Garver is a "political opportunist"."
• "Political control of the FSA is a key question for the main opposition grouping, the Syrian National Council SNC, which is based in Turkey and referred to dismissively by the regime as the "Istanbul council"."
• "They were treated as nonentities by the legal and social adjudicators of British later, Australian Tasmania, allowed grudgingly to occupy land on the islands without ever being acknowledged as its owners, and referred to dismissively as “half-castes” or, vaguely, as “the Islanders.”"