单词 | brush aside |
释义 | brush aside (once / 6400 pages) v WORD FAMILY brush aside: brushed aside, brushes aside, brushing aside USAGE EXAMPLESBrushing aside quibbles about costs, he once advised a colleague: “A few million dollars are lost in the sands of time.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) But she cheerfully brushed aside my “Miss Reynolds,” and for twenty minutes or so I felt like I was chatting with a favorite aunt. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) It is as if they would brush aside their own government interest and moral failing. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) v bar from attention or consideration Syn|Hypo|Hyper brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside cold-shoulder, slight pay no attention to, disrespect discreditcause to be distrusted or disbelieved shrug offminimize the importance of, brush aside pass offdisregard flout, scofftreat with contemptuous disregard turn a blind eyerefuse to acknowledge laugh away, laugh offdeal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it disobligeignore someone's wishes reject refuse to accept or acknowledge |
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