misrespect

1. uncountableLack of respect; improper respect; disrespect.

   Maybe she didn't like it that I was so forward, but I meant no misrespect.

   2010, Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

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   Violence extends from harassment in the street or at work to various forms of misrespect, such as treating individuals as objects, assault and sexual abuse inside and outside the family, as well as rape, the illegal trade in women, [...]

   2000, Christopher Flockton, Eva Kolinsky, Rosalind M. O. Pritchard, The new Germany in the East

   And yet his people report mat the apprehension of your Lordship's discourtesies and misrespect hastened his end, whereof my Lord his son seems very sensible.

   2003, James Charles Roy, The Fields Of Athenry: A Journey Through Ireland

present singular third person misrespects · participle present misrespecting · participle past misrespected · past misrespected

1. ambitransitiveTo show improper respect to or for; disrespect.

   On 29 October 1954, Jill Berryman writes to her son, Never feel anything but free to speak of Allyn as you like to me, never think that I disliked or misrespected him—[...]

   2006, Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman's Henry: Living at the Intersection of Need and Art

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   Moragan turned to those assembled. “Just so you know, Miss Anne put me in charge, and I love her vera, vera much! If you misrespect me, you are misrespecting her too, and I just will not stand for that!”

   2011, Paul Jackson, A Servant's Story