Word: disrespected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said, however, that no disrespect is intended. "In Korean society, you don't touch skin," he said...
...going to get into that. Those who have done good know what they've done, and they don't need to have it clarified for them. And also, I would not disrespect people for believing what they've been taught. It's not their fault. But they've been told lies, and they have to face the truth...
...wife Rebecca Pidgeon) and a haughty and fashionably iconoclastic professor (William H. Macy). His office remarks to her, lashed to a Procrustean bed of rhetorical propriety, wildly and perhaps willfully misinterpreted, become her basis for bringing formal disciplinary charges. He is accused of everything from sexual harassment to disrespect for the learning process. But his worst crime in her eyes is the "elitism" of daring to think that having something to impart makes him more important than those who come to learn. Trying to explain himself, he meets with her again, is goaded anew and makes things worse...
...jargon; but it makes no pretense at distinguishing between the useful and the awful. Where the fourth edition labels slang as such, the fifth prefers "nonformal," an ambiguous term at best. The innocent "flaky" is nonformal -- but so is the vulgar "screw." The Black English verb "dis" (short for disrespect) is nonformal; so is "deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives as "spade," "nigger," "honky," "redskin," "gook...
Carrens, Adler and Jarrett also agree that theyare angry, frustrated with an administration thatthey say treats them with disrespect...