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verb

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Recent Examples of disrespect
Noun
That disrespect from the oddsmakers likely didn't sit right with Browns star receiver Jerry Jeudy, which presumably prompted some offensive behavior from the 26-year-old wideout to the Ravens fans at M&T Bank Stadium who greeted him with a chorus of boos last Sunday. Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025 This was an audience of almost 500 students and zero disrespect. Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
My wife constantly disrespects me. Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025 Angry Wave Sumrall suggested that Northwestern disrespected New Orleans when the Wildcats declined the Green Wave’s request to wear all-white uniforms without logos, like the 2005 Tulane team did in its first game after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disrespect
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrespect
Verb
  • The series of tests YouTuber Cody Detwiler put Ben the humanoid through a series of tasks after insulting him and programming him to consider humans as enemies.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Patrick doesn’t waste time insulting Ellen about her relationship with Edward, never mind that, as Ellen points out, Edward’s the reason Patrick’s a free man.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lewis Wedlock, a social psychologist specializing in masculinities, notes that the term is especially cutting when a man uses it to refer to another man, which can imply disdain for his authenticity and his submission in pandering to women.
    Ashleigh N. DeLuca, Parents, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Kleinfeld disdains the concept of work-life separation.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Essentially, they’re used to meeting an expectation where rudeness and thoughtlessness aren’t tolerated—because their older sister made sure of that.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 18 Sep. 2025
  • If senior figures display rudeness or disrespect, employees may assume that such behavior is acceptable, making selective enforcement seem arbitrary and undermining of trust.
    Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reporters in the Brady Room earlier this week were greeted by the meme on a loop; the vice president, addressing them on the shutdown, laughed at Democrats who were offended by the trope.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And faculty worry that teaching certain subject matter and texts might offend students and, if students complain, lead to administrative sanctions.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And Maeve really hates injustice and that follows through in all the scenes with the guys.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Another is that there will always be lesbians and people who hate them, so the anger’s going to keep going, and so will the genre.
    Jo Livingstone, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For several days this week, cities across the Indian Ocean nation – one of Africa’s poorest – have been flooded with young protesters outraged over water shortages and rolling blackouts.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The move outraged leading Democrats.
    Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Really loved, obsessively loved and despised by every critic.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • His pushback against an effort to overhaul capital requirements earned him praise from Washington allies of the banking industry, which despised that proposal.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At least seven different civilian complaints have been lodged against the sergeant, alleging excessive force, discourtesy and abuse of authority.
    Shayla Colon, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Henderson then accused her of discourtesy and ordered her transferred to the 73rd Precinct then back to the 79th Precinct in one day.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024

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“Disrespect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disrespect. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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