Word: contemptable
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...towards his subject. The prima donna in Valentino dominates the film from start to finish, letting through only brief glimpses of the man's more admirable traits. He deserved better. The man who should have been the object of our praise is reduced to the object of our bemused contempt...
...Committee on Un-American activities, Fast refused to release a list of contributors to the Spanish Refugee Appeal, a group providing medical help to the Spanish Republican forces opposing Franco's fascist movement. This refusal earned Fast, a director of the organization, a three-month term in jail for contempt of Congress. And for years afterward Fast was unable to find a publisher who would handle his work...
...once-respected Post leaves us misty-eyed, the decline of her rich cousin in Times Square can inspire only sniggers of contempt. Like an aging East Side beauty striving desperately to recapture her high-flown days on the deb circuit, the Grey Lady has transformed herself into a journalistic shoehorning maxi-bopper, forcing herself into modern dress and trying to persuade potential suitors that she really is the object of their dreams...
...understand the Palestinian demands. I am continually faced by the question of what Palestinians mean by the word 'secular'--since it has not been explained. If not followed by clarification, the word 'secular' in the world-famous slogan not only does not evoke understanding inside this community--it evokes contempt...
...William Kunstler and other defense counsel who gained prominence during the widely publicized trials of American radicals like the Chicago Seven. The German lawyers have mastered the art of disrupting cases with obfuscating rhetoric, demands for evidence that is impossible to secure, requests for delays. Lacking any provision for contempt of court, German judges have generally been powerless to control these lawyers; disbarment is a seldom used procedure. Using the privileged status of the attorney-client relationship as a cloak, about a dozen of these lawyers have served-illegally-as liaison between imprisoned terrorists and their colleagues still at large...