Word: contemptable
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...should know he's a slime ball, but it hasn't sunk in. Back at the height of Reagan's popularity, voices like the Wall Street Journal labeled any such fancy-pants theorizing by Reagan's opponents--any suggestion that the people don't know their own mind--as "contempt for democracy." But that was then...
...comfortable, familiar fare of spectacle and romance. Hollywood has gotten into a tizzy over why its most recent batch of big-screen money-makers aren't ringing up receipts like in the past. On the airwaves, the TV screens and the big screen, there's a certain palatable contempt for fare which has become over-produced...
...counseling critics to "get a life." But by Friday, after a slew of negative comments from other journalists, culminating in a blistering New York Times editorial that called Klein's actions "corrupt," the mood changed. Klein, cocky during his press conference, became more subdued as he suffered the contempt of his colleagues. "The public looks at us as people who make judgments about character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they see one of us lying, it hurts everyone." Added New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta: "The issue of cover-up became the issue. Maynard Parker allowed...
...Because here is the cruelest irony of all, which the warning labels should also be required to address: no bathing suit, no matter how artfully filled, can guarantee reproductive success; in fact, the foxier you look in it, the more likely you are to be a target of male contempt...
...last guy you'd figure would go spiritual on you. To be sure, I started out a nice Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey. But with puberty came doubt. I became the Voltaire of Schuyler Avenue, the scourge of poor Rabbi Engel, who endured my contempt for his gullibility. By the time I graduated from high school, I was a budding molecular biologist, and though I continued fasting on Yom Kippur, it had become an act of solidarity with my heritage, not obedience to a God I believed...