adjective

• Showing a lack of respect or courtesy; impolite.

  ‘a deeply disrespectful attitude towards women’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The problem lies in a deeply disrespectful, even contemptuous, attitude towards women.’
  • ‘He is widely disliked among his peers because he is disrespectful, argumentative and abusive towards people.’
  • ‘He said the amount of beer cans and rubbish was insulting and disrespectful to the people buried there.’
  • ‘She finds English people in general very rude, especially children disrespectful of their parents.’
  • ‘Abigail had a reputation for being a wild, irreverent and disrespectful young girl.’

  Synonyms

  discourteous, rude, impolite, uncivil, unmannerly, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, ungracious, irreverent, inconsiderate

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