Object

• appeal: For the reasons he gives I would dismiss the appeal.

• employe: You are bound not to dismiss the employe unfairly.

• rumor: Tottenham have been linked with the 24 year old, but Hoddle was quick to dismiss such rumors.

• speculation: Ian Moore's agent has dismissed speculation linking the player with a move to Sheffield Wednesday.

• notion: From roadside glimpses so far, I'd dismissed all horror-film notions of vodou.

• allegation: He dismissed allegations that Baghdad could, in the foreseeable future, produce a nuclear device.

Preposition: on

• ground: However, concerns about the widening cross-sectional distribution cannot be dismissed on the grounds that they are offset by mobility.

Preposition: as

• crank: Tho it's tempting, they can't be dismissed as cranks outside the mainstream.

• fantasy: Scholars have dreamt of making such discoveries for centuries, but until the last couple of years they were understandably dismissed as fantasies.

Adjective complement

• irrelevant: In an age when God's existence is often dismissed as irrelevant to real questions, this is encouraging stuff.

Modifying Another Word

• unfairly: UNISON wins unfair dismissal case in Shetland UNISON has won compensation for a member unfairly dismissed from Shetland Amenity Trust.

• summarily: These reasons led to the competition defense in this case being summarily dismissed by the High Court.

• constructively: Where you say you were unfairly, constructively dismissed, you must follow the Grievance Procedure.

• lightly: But there is a downside to this strategy which Russia cannot dismiss lightly.

• contemptuously: George Bush contemptuously dismisses calls to combat climate change as liberal hysteria and a threat to US economic growth.

• unanimously: The House of Lords has now unanimously dismissed the employer's appeal from the majority Court of Appeal ruling.

Preposition: with

• contempt: The World Court order to terminate the crime of international terrorism and pay substantial reparations was dismissed with contempt.

Preposition: for

• misconduct: A student who is dismissed for serious misconduct will not receive a refund.

• incompetence: Goring said the plot was the work of generals dismissed for incompetence who had formed a new Reich Government of usurpers.

• reason: I agree that both appeals should be dismissed for the reasons given by Hale LJ.