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verb

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as in to shrug off

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brush-off

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noun

ˈbrəsh-ˌȯf How to pronounce brush-off (audio)
as in dismissal
treatment that is deliberately unfriendly the mayor tends to give anyone under voting age the brush-off

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brush (off)
  1. shrug off
  2. dismissal
  3. rejection
  4. reject
  5. snub
  6. dismiss
  7. scorn
  8. pass over
Verb
  • Nadella shrugs off my questions about whether Microsoft still harbors the bullying behavior that powered its initial rise.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Director Ali Abbasi shrugged off Trump's threat of a lawsuit in May and said the 45th president should watch the film for himself.
    Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of shrug off
Noun
  • Note that states with lots of quits and dismissals also ranked high on hirings.
    Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The dismissal of Douglas, who was 30-64 and had no winning seasons in his tenure, came exactly six weeks after Johnson fired Saleh as coach on Oct. 8 after the Jets were 2-3 to open the year.
    Dennis Waszak Jr., Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of dismissal
Noun
  • That’s consistent with the millennium’s rejection of cultural heritage.
    Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Ordinary credit has recently hit record-high rejection rates.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of rejection
Verb
  • The whistleblower lawsuit, however, was allowed to move forward after the Texas Supreme Court rejected Paxton's appeal to kill the suit after his impeachment trial.
    Hogan Gore, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • However, the judge rejected James’ claim in the lawsuit that alleged SiriusXM had engaged in fraud and deception by misleading subscribers seeking to cancel their accounts.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of reject
Noun
  • But even by those standards, the SNL snubs are notable compared to the number of nominations received by non-SNL actors in comedies.
    Mara Reinstein, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
  • News of the singer’s snub made headlines, especially since Beyoncé has spoken about feeling unwelcome in the genre.
    Char Adams, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2024
Definition of snub
Verb
  • The company dismissed its previous auditor, Marcum Asia CPAs LLP, and engaged WithumSmith+Brown, PC as its new auditor.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Douglas, who was in the final year of his contract after being hired in 2019, was not consulted by Johnson when the owner made the decision to dismiss Saleh and replace him on an interim basis with defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich.
    Dennis Waszak Jr., Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of dismiss
Verb
  • Trump previously pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord and scorned international efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
    Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Mann scorned the notion of the writer as political activist.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of scorn
Verb
  • After the Sharks failed to clear the puck inside their own zone, rookie defenseman Owen Pickering slid a pass over to Drew O’Connor, who fired a puck toward the Sharks net.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • As demonstrated by Oxy, a huge bank of fans is set up to suck in air that is passed over a chemical that absorbs CO2.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of pass over
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