brush off
Example Sentences
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Critics say the brush-off is a bad look for the leader of the free world and hurts U.S. diplomatic relations.
From Washington Times
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission said it was the result of systemic racism, doubting that the water switch and the brush-off of complaints in the majority-Black city would have occurred in a white, prosperous community.
From Washington Times
Border experts were stunned by the president’s brush-off.
From Washington Times
She's not, of course, and both her initial brush-off of Nori as well as her rush to say a wrenching farewell at the last moment are the most painfully real parts of this hour.
From Salon
“Go fly a kite” means anything but the brush-off in the new TV movie “High Flying Romance.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
