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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disrespect
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
healthy respect/disrespect/scepticism etc
▪ a healthy disrespect for silly regulations
mean no harm/offence/disrespect (=not intend to harm, offend etc someone)
▪ I’m sure he didn’t mean any harm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
mean
▪ When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.
show
▪ Had he shown disrespect to their dead?
▪ It would show disrespect to look up from my bowl.
▪ The Wedding Present have shown a refreshing disrespect for convention and largely won admiration for it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Teenagers who show disrespect for authority are more likely to get involved in drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A: No disrespect to your stepson, but I would leave well enough alone.
▪ Critchley was always vulnerable because of his irreverent humour, which could lead to incautious and overt disrespect.
▪ It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference.
▪ Obviously, self-respect was not the same as disrespect.
▪ One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect.
▪ Shared laughter in difficult times is not a sign of disrespect for the pain of the situation.
▪ Spatz was a fool when it came to science, but he knew disrespect when he saw it.
▪ When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some students do feel that teachers disrespect them.
▪ The ambassador said it had not been his intention to disrespect the US government.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disrespect

Disrespect \Dis`re*spect"\, v. t. To show disrespect to.

We have disrespected and slighted God.
--Comber.

Disrespect

Disrespect \Dis`re*spect"\, n. Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect.
--Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disrespect

1610s (v.), 1630s (n.), from dis- + respect. Related: Disrespected; disrespecting.

Wiktionary
disrespect

n. A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour. vb. (context transitive English) To show a lack of respect to someone or something.

WordNet
disrespect
  1. n. an expression of lack of respect [syn: discourtesy]

  2. a disrespectful mental attitude [ant: respect]

  3. a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous [syn: contempt]

  4. v. show a lack of respect for [ant: respect]

  5. have little or no respect for; hold in contempt [syn: disesteem] [ant: respect, respect]

Usage examples of "disrespect".

Nothing untoward was reported or hinted at in the newspapers, and importantly, nothing was ever said or written by John Adams, who, of all men, would have been enraged by any disrespect shown a minister of the United States being presented under his sponsorship.

The Afro, the do of liberation, is long gone, one more forgotten fashion of the disrespected past.

For the sake of your own continued good health, wench, I suggest that you cease such impudent remarks, unless you can grow a svans to match your unwomanly disrespect of masculine superiority.

An infantry of bellboys flanked the sides of the sunlit hall, their brass buttons glittering like crocodile eyes, their caps set at an angle that suggested jauntiness without jocularity, disarm without disrespect.

Her reactions to their setbacks grew more heated, as if disrespect of the Vipers was disrespect of her.

From the very first opening of his mouth, the Aztec evinces disrespect for our person, our cloth, and our office as our Revered Majesty's personally chosen missionary, which disrespect is an implicit insult to our sovereign himself.

And you are disrespecting me by insisting on going after the seal and the key, with or without me.

But do not even think about disrespecting me like that in front of my masters!

She drank more coffee, enjoying the combination of caffeine, sugar, and delicious irony without disrespecting the man's skills.

Before we go a single step further, please hear me say that the furthest thing from my mind is disrespecting men or downplaying their biblical roles in leadership.

Mason so disrespects may yet be suited to Forces more Tellurick in nature, more attun'd, that is, to Death and the slower Phenomena.

She disrespects the Oracle, welcomes His killer into a sacred place… she plots against us, I know it!

Neither should you interfere in other people's relationships or teach or support any doctrine that disrespects the marriage relationship, interferes with the ment o obligations of either party in a marriage, and thus damages the union of a family.

Suspected peculation, absence without leave or fancied disrespect would rouse her to a volume of sound that seemed to mark the utmost limits of the female voice.

I mean no disrespect to my distinguished predecessor, but any shifting of an important administrative body from one person to another requires a great deal of reorganization, especially if the predecessors tenure has been a lengthy one.