The Mayor bluntly dismissed the Council's move as illegal and suggested that he would move ahead with his own cuts anyway.

Dempsey bluntly dismissed Ficarrotta's insinuation that a financial settlement from a civil damages suit against the players was involved.

What I do bluntly dismiss is the reliance on the same old tired techniques for "cleaning up the streets."

Reaching Peace, on Camera Early on, Mr. Wilson bluntly dismissed the Japanese complaints.

Cynthia Mailman, president of a local homeowner group called the Mud Lane Society, bluntly dismissed such notions.

He said the Castro government had long portrayed him and his colleagues as "Mafiosos" who wanted to take over, but Mr. Mas Santos bluntly dismissed that notion.

The committee today bluntly dismissed the Gilligan report.

In Iowa last month, Rudolph W. Giuliani bluntly dismissed concerns about the economy and higher gas prices by saying, "I don't know what we're all so upset about."

Today, he bluntly dismissed recent reports on the subject by Britain and the Central Intelligence Agency as "propaganda" to support already developed positions.