Crossword clues for disrespect
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disrespect \Dis`re*spect"\, v. t. To show disrespect to.
We have disrespected and slighted God.
--Comber.
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
Wiktionary
n. A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour. vb. (context transitive English) To show a lack of respect to someone or something.
WordNet
n. an expression of lack of respect [syn: discourtesy]
a disrespectful mental attitude [ant: respect]
a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous [syn: contempt]
v. show a lack of respect for [ant: respect]
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.