brush aside

VERB
  1. bar from attention or consideration
    She dismissed his advances
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How To Use brush aside In A Sentence

  • Talk to a friend who will really listen and not brush aside your feelings.
  • They reject individual justice, in favour of grand statements that brush aside particulars.
  • Gently brush aside students' anxiety about not getting the answer by refocusing their attention on the problem at hand.
  • By comparison, the Miami series suffers from hambone David Caruso's showboating - the shameless way he slips into action hero poses, doffing his sunglasses to brush aside a pesky forelock when jumping from a car.
  • brush aside the objections
  • Tempting as it is to brush aside inconvenient facts, give them serious thought. Times, Sunday Times
  • The North have both the motivation and the coordination behind the scrum to brush aside a rebuilt Midlands team.
  • Talk to a friend who will really listen and not brush aside your feelings.
  • Tempting as it is to brush aside inconvenient facts, give them serious thought. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reason they seize on the appearance and brush aside the essence in their observation of things is that they have not made a scientific analysis of the essence of the overall situation.
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