Word: disdainful
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...category all by itself is "real world." The hackers define this with disdain as "the location of non-programmers" and "the location of the status quo." -By Otto Friedrich
...gets the details of transition right. "Who bought these 'toes'?" says one senior citizen. "He would no longer say 'nigger toes,' the old name for the chocolate-covered creams." Unlike some writers who have moved up, Mason does not bury her past in ironic disdain. A woman who identifies a long, low dog as a "datsun" gets the same neighborly attention as a pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition, the insights and epiphanies are spring-loaded. A rock group...
...then, the President is merely linguistically shrouding what it really is--a new budget cut to help bail the Administration out of its budget deficit problem. While reassessing costly benefit programs is in itself entirely reasonable, the White House's backdoor style an describing and disclosing the concept warrant disdain...
...countries that rely on U.S. guns or dollars to, if asked, help him discredit Marxism in public speeches. Last month, for example, the Administration sponsored a "forum for peace and democracy," at which Caribbean and Latin American allies in effect swore allegiance to capitalism and shared the President's disdain for socialism and communism. But despite all his efforts to prevail ideologically. Reagan has achieved only marginal success...
David Todhunter, the Brown water polo team's 6-ft., 5-in. scoring machine, rarely smiles in the water. Instead, with Olympian disdain, he calmly crushed all opposition--including Harvard--leading the Bruins in scoring with nine goals as they swept their five games at Blodgett...