ADV
- quickly
- out of hand, summarily
- He dismissed her suggestion out of hand
- easily, lightly, readily
- Children's fears should never be dismissed lightly
- contemptuously
- She contemptuously dismissed their complaints
VERB + DISMISS
- cannot/could not, unable to
- be difficult to, be easy to, be possible to
- It was not easy to dismiss the matter from his thoughts
- try to
PREP
- as, from
- She dismissed their arguments as irrelevant. She tried to dismiss the idea from her mind
ADV
- fairly
- unfairly, wrongfully
- The court ruled that Ms Hill had been unfairly dismissed
- constructively
- summarily
PREP
- from
- He was summarily dismissed from his job