Minimum high regard is both a legal procedural, and a euphemistically disparaging, term of art, in the U. S. Senate.[1][2][3] Its initial sense in that body is in a rule about speech among members, intended to ensure "comity" and mutual politeness in statements by them as part of formal sessions of that body. Nevertheless, it has been used with lawyerly but also lawyerish and thereby ironic insinuation as a term of disparagement[citation needed], in effect flouting that very rule. The irony reflects the arguably ambiguous intent of "minimum", since tone or context easily connote, the presumably intended meaning of
but the ironic and significantly sarcastic,