DISRESPECTFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disrespectfully mean? 

• DISRESPECTFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb DISRESPECTFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a disrespectful manner

  Familiarity information: DISRESPECTFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISRESPECTFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a disrespectful manner

Context example:

he treats his parents rather disrespectfully

Antonym:

respectfully (in a respectful manner)

Pertainym:

disrespectful (exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous)

 Context examples 

Upon the hint of having spoken disrespectfully or carelessly of the family and the family honours, he was quite indignant.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He therefore replied, without any resentment, I would by no means speak disrespectfully of any relation of yours, madam.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I could not hear her disrespectfully mentioned, I added, without expressing my opinion in a decided tone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet, Fanny, do not imagine I would now speak disrespectfully of Sir Thomas, though I certainly did hate him for many a week.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I would not speak disrespectfully of a brother of yours, Isabella, I am sure; but you know very well that if I could think of one man more than another—he is not the person.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I observed the Old Soldier—not to adopt the name disrespectfully—to pretty good advantage, on a night which is made memorable to me by something else I shall relate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)