Timeline for What word best means "disdain for the uncouth"?
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| S Oct 21, 2014 at 3:26 | history | suggested | SrJoven |
add tag for single word requests
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| Oct 21, 2014 at 3:03 | answer | added | SrJoven | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 2:58 | comment | added | SrJoven | Sorry this is off-topic, but if you want, you can un-accept an answer by clicking the check mark. On topic: Any discrepancy that can be determinable in some form is likely to appear as pejorative in most cases. eschew low mannerisms may apply as not-as-negative but it's still haughty. | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 2:52 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 20, 2014 at 20:55 | comment | added | WS2 | I must declare a vested interest as I hold a bigoted prejudice against people who throw litter in the street without a second thought. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 13:34 | answer | added | Ornello | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 4:54 | history | edited | Cognitive Hazard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2014 at 1:35 | comment | added | Cognitive Hazard | Another way to describe what I was after: looking down upon people who do things like nose-picking in public, tossing litter into the street, etc. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 1:34 | vote | accept | Cognitive Hazard | ||
| Oct 20, 2014 at 0:21 | answer | added | Ornello | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 19, 2014 at 18:03 | answer | added | A E | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 5:20 | comment | added | Cognitive Hazard | re: baseline -- Exactly, Joe Blow. | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:53 | comment | added | Fattie | I think I know what you mean: sort of "high basic standards." You sometimes hear talk of "baseline": "she has a really high baseline for acceptable behaviour." "She is disgusted by behaviour which is below her very high baseline." | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:51 | comment | added | Fattie | What about "elitist"? | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:44 | comment | added | Cognitive Hazard | Disdain and uncouth certainly are pejorative. I'm not worried about pejorative words occurring in my definition, I was just hoping for a non-pejorative word that fits that definition. Also, the idea I'm looking to convey is not so much that the person thinks they are better than others, but more that said others don't measure up to some subjective minimum degree of grace. (There is an implication that the one person does measure up to that standard; that's just not the focus of my desired connotation.) Perhaps snob is the best I can hope for (also: supercilious... but same shortfall.) | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:33 | comment | added | Jim | Why do you think that bigotry, uncouth, and disdain are not inherently pejorative? | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:31 | comment | added | Cognitive Hazard | Well that sort of works, but I was after a more clinical angle, not something pejorative. | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:17 | comment | added | Jim | How about snob, snobbish, or snobbery? | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 3:20 | history | asked | Cognitive Hazard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |