as in disrespectfulness
rude behavior
treated the resort's service workers with haughty disrespect
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1
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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2
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
Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 27 Jan. 2025
One moment this season (still to come) that left Quad particularly stunned was Dr. G’s blatant disrespect in front of her partner, King.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 24 Jan. 2025
Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Irving is fired on the spot for assaulting a colleague (and disrespecting the ORTBO), leaving his horrified friends in his wake.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 8 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The two have now revealed a thread of fiery Instagram DM’s between them—which started off rather calm before escalating to straight disrespect.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 27 Jan. 2025
One moment this season (still to come) that left Quad particularly stunned was Dr. G’s blatant disrespect in front of her partner, King.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
This was a painful read T Tomiko S. · 2h 49m ago
Donald Trump wishes the US team luck, threatens his sovereign neighbour and disrespects Canada's Prime Minister.
—Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Irving is fired on the spot for assaulting a colleague (and disrespecting the ORTBO), leaving his horrified friends in his wake.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrespect
Verb
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About time people from the US come to understand how insulting this has been.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Both fighters had been insulting each other throughout a heated press conference before things boiled over on stage.—
Ben Church,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
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But the Gaza proposal should be seen in the context of a president who believes fervently in his own power of persuasion, who disdains traditional diplomacy, and whose Mideast envoy is a businessman with no experience in that field.—
Howard LaFranchi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 Feb. 2025
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For the Post’s editorial board to disdain substantial Chinese production for the rest of the world is for those same editorialists to disdain the division of labor that is at the root of all productive advance.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Another perspective is offered by a piece on LinkedIn, which examines the rise in public displays of rudeness and the factors contributing to this trend.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
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Even Sam, who hated conflict with a passion and preferred to let rudeness roll off her like water off the back of a duck, had a breaking point.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Zoe Saldaña has issued an apology to Mexicans who were offended by the Emilia Pérez film.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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Which would be the result soon enough if the paper treated the Letters column as some kind of exercise in PR, and excluded all opinions likely to offend somebody somewhere.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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People hated Japanese-Americans after the war, Scott Kido said between tears.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Feb. 2025
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The new 2025 Wells Fargo Money Study, based on surveys of nearly 4,000 Americans, tabulated several pieces of shopworn advice that consumers have grown to hate.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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Then over a 16-day span in April and May 2024, Drake and Lamar went back and forth with eight direct diss tracks, four from each of them.—
Carlie Procell,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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Their conflict has dominated hip-hop discourse, with each artist releasing diss tracks targeting the other.—
Lydia Patrick,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Rights groups have been outraged over the hijab law and the cruel ways it is enforced.—
Artemis Moshtaghian and Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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But the victim’s family were outraged by the offer, and a Superior Court judge rejected the deal.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Mar. 2025
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Among the many things Kingsley Amis despised was the notion that a writer might regard himself as an artist.—
Rachel Cusk,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Hart despises him and his blundering height, despises the hokey sentimentality of Oklahoma!—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Disrespect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disrespect. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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