Word: disdain
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Voicing a widely felt disdain for Lamont's sterile environs and "squeaky floors," both Wheeler and Jean prefer Quincy "because it's got comic books...
...manner tended to be somewhat intimidating at times. When Bains said his proposed student advisory committee on the budget would examine budgetary issues on a "micro-level" while the CHUL could provide input on a "macro-level", Rosovsky, an economics professor, lifted his eyebrows and smirked with apparent disdain...
Hoberman stated clearly his disdain for most of what is written about the subject. Out of all the sports literature written, he said, one tenth of one tenth of one per cent is good. The rest is "dreck...
...part, I hope Southerners (white and black) don't forget the suffering, the defeat, the injustice of Southern history, or the courage it took to endure and throw some of it off. We Americans can use that remembering. It might remedy our rootlessness, our disdain for limits. And it might free us for change...
...COMPARATIVELY EASY to hot wire an automobile, if you have the necessary equipment and a modicum of courage, or need, or the correct disdain for societal conventions, as it were. Bell had all that, plus the aching of an adolescent hand for a shift in his fingers, a lever with which to move the world...