as in disrespectfulness
rude behavior
treated the resort's service workers with haughty disrespect
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as in to insult
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in
a comedian who shuns jokes that disrespect people because of their appearance
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as in to disdain
to show contempt for
the player once again disrespected fans by refusing to sign autographs
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Recent Examples of disrespect
Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
With absolutely no disrespect to the legend that is (was) Debra Jo Rupp’s comic relief, the show immediately clicks into a higher gear once Rio quite literally claws her way back into the show.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024
Sorry that he and his fellow servicemen were disrespected upon returning from Vietnam, but times have changed.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Basically that poor enforcement had bred serious disrespect for the law, or at least a misunderstanding of it.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
With absolutely no disrespect to the legend that is (was) Debra Jo Rupp’s comic relief, the show immediately clicks into a higher gear once Rio quite literally claws her way back into the show.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
Why has romance been disrespected as a literary genre?
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024
Sorry that he and his fellow servicemen were disrespected upon returning from Vietnam, but times have changed.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrespect
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So Mara above all believes in never insulting his fans and in never losing sight of that priority.Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Ironically, these same Republican leaders that now so vigorously defend Puerto Ricans have largely looked the other way when Trump has insulted and humiliated Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and people of color in general.Ediberto Roman and Ernesto Sagas, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
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As a student at The John Carroll School, Paula Etting disdained public office.Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2024
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Good free-market neoliberals had historically disdained this idea, believing government attempts to meddle in the economy would have bad results.Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
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Bad hygiene, rudeness and talking too much about exes will be the biggest no-nos.Analis Bailey, Axios, 14 Dec. 2024
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Not drinking alcohol — for whatever reason — tends to trigger rudeness in people who do drink.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
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Opponents of name changes for ethical reasons argue that any name or word can potentially offend someone and that the meanings of words change over time.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Dec. 2024
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For a long time, she was known for trolling online, posting controversial content to go viral and often offending various communities in the process.Jack Irvin, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Louis can hate himself for the rest of his life very easily without the help of anyone else.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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The history that made us into creatures capable of coöperation also gave us the capacity to hate one another in the aggregate, to draw sharp lines dividing the in-group from the out-group.Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Drake and Lamar then began trading diss tracks which included increasingly dramatic accusations.Conor Murray, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The filings mark an unprecedented escalation of the two musicians’ ongoing beef, which exploded into the court of public opinion in the spring when Drake and Lamar began lobbing rapid-fire diss and response tracks at one another.Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2024
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Without replacing them before the cold weather arrives, you could be left with a cold home, outrages energy expenses, and an HVAC system that breaks down from working overtime to regulate indoor temperatures.Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
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Reactions to Hinckley's announcement ranged from cracking jokes to outrage that he has been released from prison.Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
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White argues that the crypto industry has become a re-creation of much of what its original ideology claimed to despise.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Beatles ’64 captures how widely the band was despised at the time by the adult establishment, from Bob Hope to the British Embassy.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Disrespect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disrespect. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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