Ethics: Contingency Fees For Lobbyists. Contingency fees are often paid to lawyers-in medical malpractice cases, for example. If a lawyer and client agree to do business on a contingency basis, the client pays no fees until the case is won, and at that time the lawyer gets a cut of the damages won.
Means: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial. (thank you actual dictionary.com) Anyways, I put in in here, because it's really, really long. Um, floccinaucinihilipilification is kind of hard to work into a sentance.
Stupid is a mean, scornful, contemptuous word. I can also see extending the rule to all uses of the word stupid because it's hardly ever used innocuously: The rule is stupid or that dress is stupid or whatever are really comments about the person behind the item.