I don't hate him. To be sure, we're not best buddies, but hate is a strong word.

Certainly, he returns explicitly to the sound of Urban Hymns on his fourth solo album: neat, sad strings, unhurried percussion and his mellifluous foghorn of a voice.

A more recent workplace use of the same root is the notion of labouring under a proctocracy, defined as ‘rule by assholes’.

So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped.