deign

Violence can be exploding in his face – actually, not figuratively – and he’ll still run only as fast as he has to, perhaps without deigning to remove his hands from his pockets.

Even if that happens, it remains to be seen whether Trump will deign to adhere to judicially imposed limits.

When the chief justice even deigns to address the crisis he and his colleagues have created, they look everywhere except at their own behavior.

Which she already has, along with all the extracurriculars required to prove she will be an asset to whichever university deigns to accept our tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, housing and fees.

Trump lied his way all the way into the last month of the 2016 presidential election before the New York Times deigned to use the words “lie” and “Donald Trump” in the same sentence.