Word: rude
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Stannard does not muffle or condone Waugh's great faults. He was anti- Semitic and terminally rude, even to close friends. He was a remote, absentee father who viewed his offspring with suspicion and alarm. "My children weary me," he once confided to his diary. "I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless." Perhaps in reaction to his frugal middle-class upbringing, he became an aristocrat-toadying snob who tended to confuse proper breeding with moral worth...
...song Cop Killer is as bad as they come. This is black anger -- raw, rude and cruel -- and one reason the song's so shocking is that in postliberal America, black anger is virtually taboo. You won't find it on TV, not on the McLaughlin Group or Crossfire, and certainly not in the placid features of Arsenio Hall or Bernard Shaw. It's been beaten back into the outlaw subcultures of rap and rock, where, precisely because it is taboo, it sells. And the nastier it is, the faster it moves off the shelves. As Ice-T asks...
When a wealthy man insists on flogging his fortune at his fellows, it is not nice to refuse. For example, it would be exceedingly rude for Americans to deny a billionaire simply because he wants to buy the presidency for $100 million and occupy what would thenceforth be known as the Ross Perot Memorial White House...
...trustees of sleepy little Glassboro State College in southern New Jersey are certainly not rude. Overwhelmed by a munificent $100 million pledge from a local businessman named Henry Rowan, the trustees last week not only voted to take the money but, in an expression of gratitude bordering on the fulsome, also decided to rename the school Rowan College of New Jersey. A self-effacing manufacturer of industrial furnaces who attended Williams College and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rowan declared himself flattered by the gesture. He had not asked for the name change; it was simply their...
...terrifying fauna than by many of the people he encountered. The ethnic put-downs of The Happy Isles might be considered racist were it not for the fact that the author is clearly an equal- opportunity disdainer. New Zealanders are shabby and provincial, he complains. Aussies are rude, foulmouthed and drink too much. Tongans are lazy, quarrelsome and mean to their children. Samoans are greedy, hostile and obese, perhaps because their junk-food diet consists mostly of "Cheez Balls" and corned beef saturated with hippo fat. (Did their liking for the latter, Theroux wonders, derive from their ancestors' enjoyment...