unrespect

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noun

A lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.

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Meanings

noununrespect (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.

    [...] a gate on which they both leant, was temporarily latched with unrespect.

    2014, Jillian Becker, The Keep
    3 more examples

    Passionate with rains and sunshine, and, unheard, Have audience of your voices, but as one Who in a temple passes unrespect Between the kneeling suppliant and the saint, Meeting the uplifted face and the rapt eyes That look beyond?

    1875, Sydney Dobell, Balder. Later Miscellaneous Poems. Sonnets and other Short Poems

    Didyou not but yesterday prostrate upon the ground the young man for that he speak with unrespect of your Vashintone?

    1877, Clara Florida Guernsey, The Shawnee Prisoner

    Again the undocumented African is saying that he goes to start doing the opposite of before, about to be unrespect with the government people, and from now he only going to be abusing me, trying to rape me, staying inside of me.

    2013, Beatriz Griffin, 2009 and USA - the Undocumented African

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
disrespect

Origin

From un- + respect.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

unsceptre
Cite this entry
APA

unrespect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrespect

MLA

“unrespect.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrespect. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unrespect,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrespect.

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