deign

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.

More than that, he also secured a prized meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a head of government who rarely deigns to trouble himself with mere foreign ministers.

When these justices deign to meet-and-greet, it’s with people who won’t ask them about conflicts of interest or gifts from billionaires.