Word: rude
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...increasingly crowded, taking up less space is a virtue. In fact, taking up less space is a form of courtesy. It's allowing others to have room. Hogging space is a way of saying, "Where I am is more important than where you are." It's self-important and rude...
Alcohol, however, will be another matter. With a President in the White House who has forsworn the demon drink, even a sip of sauvignon blanc is going to seem somewhat rude in Washington circles...
...first 30 years of my life being late for things. I even had silly little aphorisms that I would say when I was late, like "Punctuality is the thief of time." But then one day I woke up and realized how lazy and immature being late was, and how rude - because it says, 'My time is more valuable to me than your time...
...Lately Jackson chooses to speak in a rude staccato with the consonants rubbed off, sometimes a little hard to understand ("Stay out duh Bushes! Stay out duh Bushes!" he hilariously warned the Democratic convention) - an emphasis that he adopts for the sake of a downmarket authenticity that he calculates will give him most leverage in his dealings with white political power...
...objective here was not to be rude or obtrusive, but to subtly get our message across," he said, "and to make the administration understand that we are a presence on campus and we're not going away...