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The polite way to ignore something while legally admitting you saw it.
means To pay no attention to something on purpose, even though you're aware of it.
from Built from the Latin-descended 'regard' (to look at, to heed — from Old French 'regarder', to watch closely) plus the negating prefix 'dis-'. So it literally means 'to un-look' at something — to withdraw the attention you already gave it, rather than never having given it at all.
- email classic
- Appears right before please ignore my last message
- legal flavor
- Courts use it to strike improper evidence from record
- etymology
- From regard, to look at, plus dis, deliberately not