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Adjective: disrespectful  ,dis-ri'spekt-ful
  1. Exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous
    "remarks disrespectful of the law"; "disrespectful in the presence of his parents"; "disrespectful toward his teacher"
     
  2. Neither feeling nor showing respect
    - aweless, awless

See also: annihilating, contemptuous, contumelious, cynical, derisive, devastating, discourteous, disdainful, flip, gibelike, ignorant, immodest, impious, impudent, insolent, insulting, irreverent, jeering, mocking, offensive, sarcastic, sarky [Brit, informal], scornful, snotty-nosed, taunting, undeferential, undutiful, withering

Antonym: respectful

Encyclopedia: Disrespectful