disrespected

past tense of disrespect

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disrespected Your husband overreacted and disrespected you, slapping food and mocking you. Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025 Even though many media members and fans have disrespected him by calling him a game manager, Hurts has continued to make plays. Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025 The bouncer said the women had disrespected him, the boyfriend recalled, and then pulled out a gun. Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 12 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 The shooting came shortly after the rapper recorded a video for a song that disrespected Big Jook’s music producer brother, Yo Gotti. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025 The internet is ablaze with Reddit forums, magazine articles and blog posts detailing why main character Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is the worst and how the writers disrespected the original. Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 Paterno often pushed for a playoff system and felt his program and Northeast football in general were disrespected by the college football establishment. Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025 Based on my conversations with experts in China in recent weeks, Xi wants to avoid being disrespected, as Ukrainian President Zelensky and other world leaders were during their White House visits. Scott Kennedy, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrespected
Verb
  • Jews are harmed, and Christians are insulted.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • She’s visibly insulted, feels used, and turns him down.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Such restrictions on the sale of chips offended China, Luria said, and ultimately led to Beijing limiting the purchase of chips to their companies.
    Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The soldiers’ pastimes of drinking, gambling, and brawling also offended many Bostonians, who retained the piety of their Pilgrim ancestors.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Not every Wall Street suit who met Mamdani hated him.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Everybody knew that Pam hated Catherine.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Many students have acted boldly, and occasionally made dumb mistakes, because they were outraged by historical wrongs, incendiary speakers, cultural stereotypes, or other provocations.
    Christopher L. Eisgruber, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • My Dad Says and outraged by a sexy GQ magazine spread featuring the young castmembers of Fox’s Glee.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Before Cleopatra, Liz and Dick despised each other.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Really loved, obsessively loved and despised by every critic.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gastineau says the video has led to him being ridiculed and scorned.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Imagine doing all this as a woman in fifteenth-century Europe, with three children to raise on your own, in a society that scorned women who took up a pen rather than the sewing needle.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 23 Sep. 2025

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