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brush aside
verb
- tr, adverb to dismiss without consideration; disregard
Idioms and Phrases
Disregard, ignore, as in The teacher brushed aside our questions .Example Sentences
Israel repeatedly brushed aside U.S advice and requests, with more than 42,000 Palestinians killed, according to Gaza health officials.
I brushed aside plants, likely spooked a couple having coffee and frantically searched for what could be giving away my locale.
Some female voters in 2016 brushed aside their worries about Trump, believing he would act differently once he was in the White House, according to Ms Fischer Martin.
He brushed aside Trump’s threats to block the film.
Lee however remained undeterred by her illness and summoned the gumption and self-confidence to return to the mat after a brief hiatus, brushing aside the narrowly construed frameworks of athleticism.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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