disrespects
Treats with disdain
Disrespects means shows a lack of respect or treats with contempt.
Someone who disrespects you insults, dismisses, or demeans you: He disrespects his parents by ignoring their advice.
In hip-hop culture, disrespect became a noun and verb simultaneously, making Don't disrespect me a declaration against perceived slights.
The noun form, a disrespect, names a specific act of rudeness or insult.
Hostile dismissive feeling
- disdainScornful disregard
- derisionContemptuous mockery
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
- belittlementVerbal diminishing of worth
disparagement · condescension · sneering · looking down on · talking down to · patronizing · dismissiveness · haughtiness
Lack of good manners
- discourtesyRude or impolite behavior
- incivilityRude or impolite behavior
- boorishnessCrude, uncouth conduct
- brusquenessAbrupt, rude directness
curtness · impertinence · insolence · flippancy · crassness · insensitivity · tactlessness · obnoxiousness
Violating a rule or boundary
- defyingActively refusing obedience
- floutingOpenly disobeying rules
- breakingComing apart suddenly
- disobeyingFailing to comply
dishonoring · trampling · desecrating · profaning · violating · overstepping · crossing the line · breaching
Pointedly ignoring someone
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- neglectingFailing to attend to
- overlookingFailing to see or consider
- dismissingRemoving from position
brushing off · sidelining · marginalizing · slighting · excluding · shunning · cold-shouldering · stonewalling
scorn
Hostile dismissive feeling
belittlement · disparagement · condescension · sneering · looking down on · talking down to · patronizing · dismissiveness · haughtiness · arrogance
impoliteness
Lack of good manners
- discourtesyRude or impolite behavior
- incivilityRude or impolite behavior
- boorishnessCrude, uncouth conduct
brusqueness · curtness · impertinence · insolence · flippancy · crassness · insensitivity · tactlessness · obnoxiousness · harshness
transgressing
Violating a rule or boundary
disobeying · dishonoring · trampling · desecrating · profaning · violating · overstepping · crossing the line · breaching · trespassing
snubbing
Pointedly ignoring someone
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- neglectingFailing to attend to
- overlookingFailing to see or consider
dismissing · brushing off · sidelining · marginalizing · slighting · excluding · shunning · cold-shouldering · stonewalling · blanking
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
disrespectshonors
Recognition for achievement
acknowledges · recognizes · uplifts · validates · affirms
- showing disrespect
- disrespectful behaviorContemptuous treatment of others
disrespect, disrespectful, disrespected, disrespecting, disrespectfully, disrespectfulness