"If they lost, they lost," he added dismissively.

Men, one article added dismissively, "do better on other tasks, like imagining what an object would look like if it were rotated."

In one of the labs, the guard added dismissively, opening the barrier and curtly signalling him through.

I can't think why you bother with that rubbish,' Laura added dismissively.

He thought very highly of himself, but he wasn't a very good lover," Tanya added dismissively.

There was no nightlife, the place was too quiet, there was nothing at all to do, he added dismissively.

"Cambio 90 is nothing," he added dismissively of the President's political party.

Even," he added dismissively, "from an angry dove.

Other forms of gam-bling, like poker and blackjack, are just "tiny little systems," he adds dismissively.

"Marsali liked Aloysius," he added dismissively, making it clear that he had had nothing to do with the choice of so undistinguished a name.