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Disrespectful

adjective

Exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous. "Disrespectful in the presence of his parents" , "Disrespectful toward his teacher"

Neither feeling nor showing respect. Synonyms: aweless, awless.

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"Disrespectful" Quotes from Famous Books

... run across the street to avoid an approaching carriage is inelegant and also dangerous. To attempt to cross the street between the carriages of a funeral procession, is rude and disrespectful. The foreign custom of removing the hat and standing in a respectful attitude until the melancholy train has passed, is a commendable one to be followed in ...

— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young

... was hard upon her father. No doubt she was in very truth disobedient and disrespectful. It was not that she should have married any Lord Alfred that was brought to her, but that she should have struggled to accommodate her spirit to her father's spirit. But she was a Hotspur; and though she could be generous, she could not yield. And then the hold of a child upon the ...

— Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite • Anthony Trollope

... Dorothea, who now considered the quiet and unconstrained bearing of the countess as disrespectful to herself; and fixing her proud and scornful glances upon her as she contemptuously repeated the king's words, she said: "What a ...

— Frederick the Great and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... Highness was able to recognize the irregularity of the statements, and his inability to sanction such proceedings, through his desire for public peace, and to the end that such holy orders be not embarrassed with injurious writs. Consequently, in order to prevent disrespectful petitions from being presented in those tribunals, his Highness had to decree what was most in consonance with loyalty to both their Majesties, and the ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 • Various

... under the latter charge alleged that the accused did "engage in an affray with First Lieutenant E. Van A. Andruss, First Artillery." The second specification under said charge alleged that the accused addressed his superior officer in a defiant and disrespectful manner and neglected and hesitated to promptly obey the order ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland

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