(n.) Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.
(v. t.) To show disrespect to.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(2) He was accused of disrespecting the FA Cup with such a weakened team but he mounted a strong defence, referencing the club’s seven injuries that have left him with only 13 fit senior outfield players.
(3) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
(4) The result was his interview on Thursday in which he insisted he meant no “disrespect” to Obama, backed a two-state solution, and saw the US as Israel’s most important ally – the last of which at least is certainly heartfelt.
(5) The Ulster Unionist party leader, Mike Nesbitt, said: "Anyone who attacks a police officer, anyone who riots, anyone who engages in illegal street protest, is disrespecting the values of the union flag.
(6) It tends only to take being involved in one of these sessions for a member of the group's shame awareness to be activated and for him to begin to read escalations earlier and more accurately in real time, which renders shame and disrespect less threatening, which gives him the confidence and the skills to begin to work differently with his fight-or-flight response.
(7) Our response was far too defensive and worse, disrespectful of parliament."
(8) Republicans in Congress accused him of disrespect to female colleagues.
(9) Someone who disrespects you like that.” On his website, Habré called Zidane a “nymphomaniac prostitute” after hearing her testimony.
(10) If he travels there and then something happens that appears to be disrespectful to Xi Jinping that could play very badly in the domestic politics here.” Trump’s shock election sparked fears that US-China relations were entering a new era of confrontation .
(11) As a cabinet minister, it's unacceptable for someone of his standing to use such disrespectful and abusive language to a police constable, let alone anyone else.
(12) They were disrespectful.” The town did eventually adopt new regulations in early 2013 imposing some restrictions on fracking.
(13) Stephen O’Brien, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official, said he was horrified by the total disrespect for civilian life in the conflict, which has killed at least 250,000 people and maimed up to four times that number.
(14) He responded with concern: was I being disrespectful to Mandela?
(15) On Monday, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, one of 17 Republican candidates and four sitting governors , ended a state contract for Medicaid funding to the group on Monday, saying Planned Parenthood showed a “ fundamental disrespect for human life ”.
(16) Do the Swedes oppose liberty, do the Spanish believe in mutual disrespect?
(17) Ferrero: “I meant no disrespect to Mr Thohir, Inter’s directors or the people of the Philippines – with whom I have a wonderful rapport.” Legal news Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb president Zdravko Mamic fined €17,000 for defaming lawyer Ivica Crnic during a 2013 tribunal.
(18) A Plaid Cymru spokesperson said: “On the very last day of the assembly, Leighton Andrews has shown a disrespect for parties and individual AMs seeking to create a consensus across political divides.
(19) EDO Queensland’s principal solicitor, Jo Bragg, whose office has run a separate case challenging the Adani project in the Queensland land court, said this was “pretty incredible” and showed “grave disrespect for environmental laws in Australia”.
(20) Sven Giegold, a German Green MEP, called Varoufakis “populist and disrespectful” in an open letter .
Incivility
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.
(n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
(n.) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like many in the town who voted FN, he complains about the lack of opportunities, the "little incivilities" he has encountered in the town centre – people throwing rubbish and youths smoking hashish.
(2) The municipal agents of the new brigade will be tasked with tracking down and punishing all the incivilities that spoil life for Parisians,” the deputy mayor, Colombe Brossel, told journalists.
(3) Steve Baker tempered his “polishing the poo” to “polishing the deal” and even the usually polite Jacob Rees-Mogg was roused to near incivility.
(4) To some people this is a cause of regret and disorientation - a change that they associate with the growing incivility of modern urban life.
(5) It has become a catch-all term for everything from minor disagreements through to annoying incivility through to criminal behaviour such as death threats.
(6) Now the city authorities are planning a dedicated “incivility brigade” to hand out warnings and fines to persuade offenders to be better behaved.
(7) The degree of verbal aggression and incivility in much online discourse is shocking.
(8) [W]here the left say that silence emboldens the racists, as I watched I wondered if the opposite wasn’t true – if this theatre of barely suppressed violence was animating them.” The objection to counter-protests often seems to be born more of a horror of incivility than of a clear appraisal of the longer term trends in a polity where nothing, not even the centre ground, is static.
(9) His abrasive and apparently autocratic leadership style sparked a campaign of whispers describing foul temper tantrums, incivility to staff and intemperate demands.