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dismissive

 adjective
     
dis‧miss‧ive
refusing to consider someone or something seriously
dismissive of
Some historians have been dismissive of this argument.
dismissive gesture/wave/shrug etc
Cath spread both hands in a dismissive gesture.
—dismissively adverb
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