The President of Iran warned the U.S. in unusually dismissive terms that it was up to Washington to improve relations.

Increasingly as well, he depicts Mr. Bush in personal, dismissive terms as one who is fated to lose the election, knows it, and is desperate.

Astronomer Fred Hoyle is responsible for the term "big bang," although he used it as a dismissive term.

Internal memos have reportedly contained a variety of dismissive terms for ex-followers.

Despite this success, the magazine had a reputation for low-quality space opera and adventure fiction, and modern literary historians refer to it in dismissive terms.

"incomplete ones", a dismissive term generally used to designate people with mental disorders or who display poor judgment).

Her style has a lyric elegance that has deceived critics into describing her, with that most dismissive term of faint praise, as 'gentle'.

When he did acknowledge her existence he talked in dismissive and unrealistic terms.

You should lie about your talents and accomplishments, describing your victories in dismissive terms as if they were the result of luck.

In his appearance before Parliament on Monday, he spoke of the initiative in dismissive and scornful terms.