No one should have to be ignored and dismissed like that, he said.

He was ignominiously dismissed like a lackey caught pilfering.

Tobin wasn't used to being dismissed like this.

I'd dropped everything, devoted myself to the effort, then been dismissed like a servant suspected of stealing.

It was a dismissal, and Malcolm Lightener was not used to being dismissed like a troublesome book agent.

They had just had a field-day, and for some reason, one of the troops had not been dismissed like the rest.

In the briefest of moments he had to decide if he would bow to protocol and be dismissed like a servant or stand and fight.

" Dismissed like a school-boy," muttered he, while tears of rage flowed down his cheeks.

"The King," so they said, "has broken his contract and the King therefore is dismissed like any other unfaithful servant."