His relationship with Webster is complex, at once admiring of the pathologist's professional skills, but somewhat dismissive of him personally.

The term immediately caught on as a replacement for the somewhat dismissive "junior college."

Following her death, Thomas Hunt Morgan wrote an extensive, if somewhat dismissive, obituary for the journal Science, implying that she was more of a technician than a scientist.

Your correspondent is by now revising her somewhat dismissive views about the value of haute cuisine.

When he first approached computer scientists for help, he said, they were arrogant and somewhat dismissive.

Despite being somewhat dismissive of the list, she couldn't help expressing some glee when told that her California neighbor to the south, Modesto, was at the bottom this year.

Knighted in 1998, Mr. Holm is self-effacing (he says he doesn't much fancy Sir Ian, preferring just plain Ian) and seems somewhat dismissive of such praise.

Ludin wrote "Like most Afghans, I did not expect a perfect election but I am very worried now about the growing negative, somewhat dismissive, tone of the post-election evaluations.

At the time, he had a contempt for business - and still takes a somewhat dismissive view of it.

As Pound recalls, the initial responses he got were somewhat dismissive: "They said we work at the gene level.