Sallie Krawcheck

My low point was after being reorganized out of running Merrill Lynch. That dismissal deeply contradicted my sense of fairness, since, at the time, my team and I had done what we were brought in to do: We had turned Merrill Lynch around from the depths of the financial crisis.

American Businesswoman

Campbell Brown

It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.

American Journalist

Sarah Rees Brennan

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

Irish Writer

Joy Reid

Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.

Sean Evans

When you consider the depths to which major college football coaches are willing to sink in order to protect their programs, Tyrann Mathieu's dismissal from LSU is staggering.

American Entertainer

Thomas Kinkade

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

American Artist

Marc Jacobs

I love how the reality of fashion is all about something for that moment and then the extremity of dismissal.

American Designer

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

American Poet

Frank Woolley

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

English Athlete

Bill Dedman

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

Often used to describe being fired or let go from a job, usually formal and serious.

Workplace Context

Can infer someone’s feelings of sadness, anger, or disappointment when they're dismissed.

Negative Emotion

There might be a legal or formal process to follow for a dismissal to happen.

Required Procedure

Refers to rejecting thoughts or suggestions, often implies a power imbalance.

Idea Rejection

Speaks to someone’s attitude; can sound arrogant or disdainful.

Dismissive Tone

Means a court case or legal action is completely closed or ended.

Legal Finality

Can indicate relief or joy for someone involved in legal proceedings.

Possible Reliefs

Used specifically for removing players from a game, conveys consequences.

Sports Discipline

A player’s removal impacts the team's strategy and chances of winning.

Team Strategy Impact

 deserving of harsh words, dismissal and even abuse. To others, I was the tragically brain-damaged boy who had grown to become a man. Someone they were kind to and cared for. Good or bad, I was a blank canvas