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- adjective Capable of being
dismissed .
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Examples
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Libertarians have discredited their good Austrian ideas for nearly 50 years by packaging them together with non-consequentialist arguments about natural rights, the virtue of selfishness, the equation of liberty with private property, and so on that make the Austrian empirical-theoretical part of the package eminently dismissable.
Why should natural lawyers care about teaching freed-market economics? 2009
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Meanwhile, granted there were maybe too many dialogs before exporting an image, but I somehow never found them too terribly annoying, since most were easily dismissable with another Enter keypress.
Gimp 2.7 Beta Improves Text Editing, Streamlines Saving | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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"How is questioning the highly dubious veracity of these government agencies a tact dismissable as 'not going to get it done'?"
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Libertarians have discredited their good Austrian ideas for nearly 50 years by packaging them together with non-consequentialist arguments about natural rights, the virtue of selfishness, the equation of liberty with private property, and so on that make the Austrian empirical-theoretical part of the package eminently dismissable.
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How is questioning the highly dubious veracity of these government agencies a tact dismissable as "not going to get it done"?
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But unlike the prevailing tone today, Hamlet's irony isn't mere knowingness, a tool for cutting people down to dismissable size.
Today’s Man 2009
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It is quite dismissable because it is not even August yet.
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You make a point in an argument and it's supposed to be dismissable just by saying "oh yeah, well that's just the argument her opponents are making".
Hillary Outlines Foreign Policy Agenda Of Liberal Internationalism 2009
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Translated, that meant you were so blinded by your own (inappropriate!) disapproval of Our Preznit, that any dissatisfaction you had with his regime was meaningless and totally dismissable.
Report: Hillary Aides Privately Furious With Bill Over Iraq Misstep 2009
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But the movie version actively bugged me, while the comic version just seemed goofy and dismissable.
Angelina Jolie’s Character May Return For Wanted 2 | /Film 2009
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