Sentence:  Speaking of glaring faults, howsabout Rio Ferdinand's for starters? This, at least, is one properly footballing ‘Hot Topic' the <WSD>Partridgean</WSD> hacks have managed to find room for, though I note it took him cocking up in an England shirt for them to do so. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Self-important but bathetic; unable to distinguish the meaningful from the trivial and therefore prone to absurdity.