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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

... of Geneva in December, 1728, pronounced this paper highly disrespectful to the councils, and injurious ...

— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau

... true. You're a sharp boy for your age. But don't be disrespectful to your father, Ben; no good can ever come o' that. Whatever you are, be respectful to your old father. Come, I'll tell ...

— The Giant of the North - Pokings Round the Pole • R.M. Ballantyne

... science, and intimately connected with the royal destinies." S.... Louis was the slave of his physicians also. Cottier, one of these, was paid a retaining fee of ten thousand crowns, besides great sums in lands and money. "He maintained over Louis unbounded influence, by using to him the most disrespectful harshness and insolence. 'I know,' he said to the suffering King, 'that one morning you will turn me adrift like so many others. But, by Heaven, you had better beware, for you will not live eight days after you have ...

— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

... unperceived consequences followed. The customs played the part of sanitary regulations. When it became the custom to retire it became indecent not to retire. Then it became a tradition from ancestors that one always must retire, and the ghosts would be angry if this rule was not observed. It was disrespectful to them, and would offend them to expose the body or not to retire. The Greeks said that it offended the gods. In the books of Moses the sanction for all the rules of decency is, "For it is an abomination unto the Lord." That is only an expression of the disapproval ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... it's rather disrespectful in you to laugh. Isn't it a lovely night? I didn't think you had such moonlight nights in England. What a night for ...

— A Fair Barbarian • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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