Word: contemptable
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...conservative constituents. Wrote Columnist William Safire, who in the past has supported Reagan: "The themeless pudding called this year's State of the Union address was a series of banalities intended to ingratiate the President with his political opposition; instead, this worst of Reagan speeches invited the grinning contempt it received...
...biographer occasionally lapses into the tone of a prattling Sunday school teacher, creating a book with little sympathy for its subject. His assertion, for example, that Johnson's will to dominate arose out of his contempt for his parents, who "stuck by their ideals" and failed, does a disservice to the complex man he seeks to analyze. Caro insists that Johnson's conversion of a secret college social club into a political power on the Southwest texas campus revealed in the man a deviousness, a just for secrecy, and "a will of steel" plotting to "not only snatch existing power...
...systematically bullied by Japan's rising military might, including the outright Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula in 1910. South Korea regained its independence following World War II, but even today polls indicate that Japan is the country most hated by South Koreans, ranking higher in their contempt than Communist North Korea...
...tribute that vice pays to virtue, then furtiveness is the true outlaw's salute to the force of law-and-order. The red-light runner, however, shows no respect whatever for the social rules, and society cannot help being harmed by any repetitious and brazen display of contempt for the fundamentals of order...
...book but a computer printout that can be acquired only by accessing the right data base. The term hacker is itself an example, for underground languages like to reverse the connotations of words; in black English, for instance, bad means good. So hacker, a term of contempt in ordinary English, becomes high praise when computer fanatics apply it to themselves. As for anyone who simply employs a computer for some practical purpose and then shuts it off, the hacker derisively refers to him as a "user...