Word: disrespectfulness
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...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...
...There is a great deal ofdisrespect...disrespect for the average Blackyoungster," said Cambridge resident MarshallMilner. "All [police officers] see is a Blackhip-hop dude...
Carrens, Adler and Jarrett also agree that theyare angry, frustrated with an administration thatthey say treats them with disrespect...
...Star Game must have dispelled them. The event was designed to showcase the President as a normal, red-blooded American just when the Democrats were listening to Jesse Jackson and AIDS activists in Madison Square Garden. Instead it turned into another Bush public relations fiasco. Showing uncommon disrespect for the man as well as the office, the crowd at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium booed Bush as he strode to the pitcher's mound with the legendary slugger Ted Williams -- not exactly the image he wished to convey to roughly 22 million television viewers...
Besides the general criticisms of disrespect, three areas of concern are continually raised with respect to women at the Law Review: specific events of harassment, attitudes among Review staff members toward feminist scholarship and the statistical disparity between men and women...