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unrespectful

unrespectful adjective: not respectful.

Adjective

unrespectful (comparative more unrespectful, superlative most unrespectful)

  1. Not respectful.
    • 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.1885, John Ruskin, On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)
    • 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...1877, David Masson, The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

Forms of unrespectful

comparativemore unrespectful
superlativemost unrespectful

Origin of unrespectful

From un- + respectful.

Words formed from unrespectful

Questions about unrespectful

What does unrespectful mean?
Unrespectful means not respectful.
What part of speech is unrespectful?
Unrespectful is an adjective.

Words near unrespectful in the dictionary

  1. unrespectability
  2. unrespectable
  3. unrespectables
  4. unrespectably
  5. unrespected
  6. unrespectful
  7. unrespectfully
  8. unrespectfulness
  9. unrespecting
  10. unrespective
  11. unrespectively

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