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as in insulted
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in
a comedian who shuns jokes that disrespect people because of their appearance
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as in disdained
to show contempt for
the player once again disrespected fans by refusing to sign autographs
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Recent Examples of disrespected
Your husband overreacted and disrespected you, slapping food and mocking you.
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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
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
Former Dolphins cornerback Jalen Ramsey reportedly disrespected coach Mike McDaniel by showing up late to practices or meetings on multiple occasions.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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
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
Former Dolphins cornerback Jalen Ramsey reportedly disrespected coach Mike McDaniel by showing up late to practices or meetings on multiple occasions.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrespected
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Her collectedness collapses as Johnson turns the joke into a physical act-out, becoming almost insulted that this earthquake dared to frighten her.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Last September, when news broke that another friend of Kraus’s, the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, had exchanged intimate texts with Kennedy, Kraus wrote a Substack post accusing Nuzzi of ensnaring Kennedy and insulted her looks on Instagram.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Of course, Potato Head shrugged when Roseanne Barr was fired by the same network – for a single tweet that offended a woman born in Iran.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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If you are offended by what somebody says or does, then take up a political cause to fight back, not a gun, not a bomb, not a knife.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
14 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Singh, who is nonetheless bullish on the market despite any reservations, said any lack of clarity around economic conditions heading into the decision could dent a rally that’s hated by many.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Ryan was said to be hated by everyone in the prison, and eventually killed himself in the cell.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The move outraged leading Democrats.—
Franco Ordoñez,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
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As if to prove the magnificent treasures within Paris now belonged to the German dictator, the statue of Great War French hero General Mangin—which outraged the Führer—was destroyed.—
Christopher C. Gorham
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Before Cleopatra, Liz and Dick despised each other.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
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Really loved, obsessively loved and despised by every critic.—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Gastineau says the video has led to him being ridiculed and scorned.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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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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