Word: contemptable
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...purpose here is not to demand nomenclatural justice for rural Southerners. You don't have to listen to very many Hank Williams Jr. songs ("You can send me to hell or New York City; it would be about the same to me,") to realize that elitists' contempt for country folks is returned in kind...
...That type of thing we dismiss with contempt. The armed struggle continues. Until the government negotiates a new situation, including the end of violence, there is no way of stopping...
...much as soldiers -- survived it only by reliance on euphemism and illusions: our lads were all brave heroes, for example, while theirs were sadistic thugs. Fussell has a sharp eye for the bawdry and the Catch-22 absurdities of combat. But hard to find in his barrages of withering contempt is much sense that this war, for all the bumbling incompetence of its captains, nonetheless had a just cause...
FROM its title, Berke Breathed's new comic strip, "Outland," promises to take readers someplace unusual and distant every Sunday. But you've seen this before. In this case, familiarity breeds contempt...
...brokerage for invasion of privacy in Massachusetts county court and won the case last June (Merrill Lynch is appealing). The judge issued an injunction prohibiting Merrill Lynch from calling Schlesinger, yet barely two months later, a Merrill Lynch broker rang him up. The attorney filed a complaint for contempt of court, and Merrill Lynch was ordered to pay $300. Said a spokesman: "We tried everything to keep Mr. Schlesinger's name off the lists. But we have 12,000 brokers. One of the calls slipped through...