dismiss lightly
Frequency: 6.99.5 per million words
To dismiss without giving it serious thought.
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- Children's fears should never be dismissed lightly.
- The manager dismissed her concerns lightly, a decision he later regretted.
- Don't dismiss these warnings lightly; they are based on solid evidence.
- We cannot afford to dismiss the competition's new product lightly.
- The potential long-term consequences are too severe to be dismissed lightly.
- He tends to dismiss any opinion that differs from his own lightly.
- A threat of this magnitude is not something to be dismissed lightly.
- I made the mistake of dismissing the symptoms lightly at first.
- The committee was criticized for having dismissed the report so lightly.
- It's a mistake to dismiss voter apathy lightly during an election year.