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dismissably en · ADV

Etymology

From dismiss + -ably.

Meanings

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