unrespectful
English
Etymology
un- + respectful
Adjective
unrespectful (comparative more unrespectful, superlative most unrespectful)
- Not respectful.
- 1885, John Ruskin, On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2):
- The character, however, of which the assumed name is truly expressive, deserves from us no unrespectful attention; we shall best possess our readers of it by laying before them one or two passages from the preface.
- 1877, David Masson, The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660:
- This, supported by Whalley and Goffe, calmed the meeting somewhat; and, after much more speaking, in which the necessity of a separation of the military power from the civil was a prominent topic, the result was "A Humble Representation and Petition of the Officers of the Armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland," expressed in general and not unrespectful terms, but conveying sufficiently the Army's demands.
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Derived terms
- unrespectfully
- unrespectfulness