Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shame, Christopher, is the feeling one has when one treats another with disgrace and disrespect. Shame is the human experience of realizing that one has acted inhumanely. Shame is the sense of embarrassment and regret that overwhelms each of us when we appreciate how callous we have been, how intolerant or fearful. Shame is what we feel when we are young and mean to one younger, poor and indifferent to one poorer, willing to act superior toward those more rejected than ourselves...
...effort to expose alleged chronic problems of physical mistreatment, disrespect and race-related antagonism in Harvard's police department, a Boston lawyer is seeking students who say they have been harassed by police...
Silverglate said that problems of harassment and disrespect may indicate that Harvard officers are alienated from the students they serve...
...tenure, it has been generally accepted, understood and the topic of jokes that Chief Johnson has a problem with me as a woman in the Police Department," Stanford wrote. "It is common knowledge that he refers to me in conversation as being a bitch and often regards me with disrespect and contempt...
...colleagues are not the only source of differential treatment. Students often visualize the ideal Ivy League professor as the gray-haired white man, a model into which women and minorities do not fit, professors say. And disrespect based on such images may be fought by adding to the ranks of female professors...