Word: contemptable
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...gloves in booking the men was less a public health measure than a way for police officers to demonstrate their contempt for the arrested...
...captured this sentiment when he recently wrote, "If the so-called American 'liberal' left had any real self-respect, they would now be engaged in agonized reflection and collective head-banging over the appalling errors of their own pusillanimous predelictions for the impoverishing hand of statism, and their long contempt for freedom's economic agenda...
...abuse" of judicial discretion. Following years of municipal obstructionism and a refusal by the city to carry out a housing-desegregation decree to which it had earlier consented, Sand in 1988 ordered Yonkers council members to vote for the plan. When four legislators disobeyed, the judge imposed potentially crushing contempt fines on them and the city. Last week, in a 5-to-4 vote, the court ruled that Sand should not have fined the council members until he was certain that the fines against the city alone would not force compliance. Wrote Chief Justice William Rehnquist: "The imposition of sanctions...
...biggest chill has come over raiders who once promised to run companies more efficiently than did the bosses they ousted. Largely self-made men who flaunted their contempt for corporate America, many raiders have had a rude comeuppance. Some have suffered much greater setbacks than others, but few are flying as high as they did in their heydays. Among the consequences of their deals...
Luckily for Deighton, there is no sign of change in his narrative's other engine of mischief, the mole-ridden, class-clotted English intelligence apparatus. A considerable part of the fun of the author's nearly endless chronicle has always been his seething contempt, and Samson's, for England's upper-class bumblers, and for Oxbridge leftists of the Kim Philby stamp. Readers who have followed Samson from Berlin Game will recall that his very upper-class wife Fiona, also an English intelligence agent, defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less...