Word: contemptable
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...rest of the world does not share the Americans' native sympathy for cowboys. Beyond the territorial waters, "cowboy" is often a term of derision, of contempt. In Europe, the word frequently conjures up everything that people fear and mistrust in Americans. It suggests unpredictable, violent behavior, a heedless and cavalier lawlessness and a kind of vigorous stupidity: a hard killer glint in the American eye, the loose cannon rolling around in the American mind. Viet Nam was a rip-roaring American cowboy adventure that turned into a nightmare. The cowboy idea does not always ^ travel well abroad. It works best...
...Lavelle was convicted of perjury for denying any involvement in EPA's dealings with the Stringfellow Acid Pits, a notorious waste dump in California, where Aerojet General, along with many other companies, had dumped tons of caustics, cyanides and heavy metals over the years. Burford was also charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to give it some internal EPA documents; the charge was dropped after she quit in March...
...first place, or why we are supposed to sympathize with this life's ambition. The film seems to work against its own supposed stand for women's rights. Walking past a row of leering truck-drivers, June's female companion offers in smiling, taunting contempt, "Hello, assholes," reducing her to their level. The issue of socio-economic progress degenerates into feminism at its iron-fisted worst: men are pitiful brutes...
Judge Gustave Diamond also held Strong's lawyer, Adam Renfroe Jr., in contempt of court. Throughout the trial, Renfroe tried to shift attention from Strong to the players he called "hero junkies." In his closing remarks he ignored the judge's instructions to avoid discussing the players' immunity grants. Renfroe was sentenced to 30 days in jail...
...that his doctor "recommended me not to testify." He complained of chest pains and refused to answer questions. Government medical experts said that Bonanno was healthier than he claimed. The judge agreed, calling Bonanno's performance "an arrogant flouting of the duty to give testimony." Owen found Bonanno in contempt of court and ordered him to prison until he changed his mind, or until the end of the organized-crime trial scheduled to begin in New York next March...