Other senior State Department officials dismissed the book's account as a familiar one.

Someone a little crazy, who'd not dismiss her account out of hand; someone already half believing.

But a senior police official dismissed accounts of police nonchalance.

Elminster dismissed Galaeron's account with a wave of his pipe.

They can either dismiss her account as unfounded or confirm it and mete out punishment to another senior officer.

In the other, I had Brian dismissing his account: "That is impossible."

He moved on to the Holocaust, dismissing historical accounts that six million Jews were exterminated.

Sometime political and theological allies of Mr. Robertson quickly dismissed his account.

The British dismissed his account.

Some ex-military officers have dismissed Rousseff's account, saying that she could not have survived that extent of torture.