Word: contemptible
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...their affinity also fuels an undercurrent of contempt. Each says of the other, in nearly identical words: "I know his type," or "I knew guys like him back home." And that's partly because they walked different paths even before they left their small hometowns. Virginia Clinton doted on her son so much that she turned over the master bedroom to him. Iona Lott, however, recalls that "people used to say an only child would be spoiled and selfish. And I was determined he wouldn't be that way." She made Trent share everything, including the pony...
Like most residents of the United States, I think that crime is abhorrent and below contempt in a civil society. But I also believe that the worst crime is state-backed violence against a citizenry. When most of my white colleagues leave Harvard, they will enter a world where violence is something viewed on the evening news or in a Quentin Tarrantino movie. I, on the other hand, will not only see it in my community, but have a good chance of being a victim myself. To whom can I take my concerns...
Particularly rankling to local fans was the fact that Parcells was leaving the Patriots to become the coach of the Jets, division rivals of his former team and natives of a city which Bostonians have always viewed with an odd mixture of contempt and envy...
...citron and other members of the yellow family, all of them, amazingly, on speaking terms. Having surrendered palette control to my spouse, who in turn capitulated to professional direction, I suddenly found myself surrounded by--and bonding with--a spectrum of hues I had always held in special contempt...
...family of renowned conductor Zubin Mehta. But last Friday she was granted permission to return by year's end to the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete tests for possible breast cancer. There she has been serving a sentence of up to 18 months on a contempt of court citation for refusing to testify before independent counsel Kenneth Starr's grand jury--a matter on which she has shown no signs of relenting...