Disrespect

"Disrespect" in a Sentence (12 examples)

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, your church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind or generous or useful action.

In court facing charges of obscenity, the American actress Mae West was asked by the judge if she was trying to show disrespect to the court, whereupon she answered, "No, your honor, I'm trying not to show it".

Interfering with a funeral is a great show of disrespect.

I mean no disrespect.

I didn't mean any disrespect.

We don't mean any disrespect.

I'm sure Tom meant no disrespect.

Tom was furious that Mary was always late for their weekly meeting, and said he thought it was a sign of disrespect.

I meant no disrespect.

It's not disrespect.

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[S]he uſed many arguments both to excuſe her ſelf and divert their intentions, yet adding ſtill more fierceneſs to their former behaviour, as they would not ſeem at all to be ſatisfied either with her language or her tears (notwithſtanding they proceeded more from her apprehenſion of their diſreſpects to her perſon, than out of any ſenſe ſhe had of her own preſent danger) […]

This was a champion team out of kilter, stung by what was arguably an act of disrespect to their opponents, a failure to appreciate their threat and the fine planning of Carlos Osorio, and never really able to regain its balance.

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