Word: contemptible
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...Australia TV personality is cleared of contempt-of-court charge...
...charged with criminal contempt of court for "knowingly and willfully" violating a 1990 court order not to broadcast audiotapes of deposed Panamanian dictator General Manuel Noriega's jailhouse conversations. Some of the tapes recorded Noriega's calls to his lawyer's office; their broadcast raises constitutional issues. CNN pleaded not guilty...
...affirming love and happy endings, they consistently undercut the same structure with theri realization of the futility of all sentiments, most especialy love. The film ends with all the participants coupled, but this highly conventional resolution, required in all classic boudoir farces, is shattered by the bursts of despair, contempt and naked pity throughout the film. Bergman explodes the structure of the comedy of manners from within...
...Makes use of words or non-verbal symbols that are commonly understood to convey direct, visceral hatred or contempt for human beings on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or national origin...
...still read every student journal of opinion, but the awe I felt as a freshman has been replaced by contempt and irritation at the deterioration of editorial debate. Campus opinion has been brought down to the level of name-calling and ridicule. In short, Beavis is invading the written word...