impoliteness [im-puh-lahyt]
Main Entry:
bad manners
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: improper behavior
Synonyms: boorishness, discourtesy, disrespect, impoliteness, inconsideration, unmannerliness
Main Entry: incivility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: discourtesy
Synonyms: bad manners, coarseness, discourteousness, disrespect, impoliteness, rudeness, unmannerliness
Main Entry: discourtesy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disrespect
Synonyms: brusqueness, contumely, impoliteness, incivility, inurbanity, profanation, rudeness
Antonyms: courtesy, politeness
Main Entry: lese majesty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disrespect
Synonyms: boldness, coarseness, contempt, discourtesy, dishonor, flippancy, hardihood, impertinence, impiety, impoliteness, impudence, incivility, insolence, insolency, insolentness, irreverence, lack of respect, sacrilege, unmannerliness
Related Words
Main Entry: disrespect
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
affrontive, aweless, contumelious, derisive, disparaging, disregarded, disrespectful, insulting, irreverent, rude, sarcastic, scurrile, scurrilous, subderisorious, supercilious, unenvied, unregarded, unrespected, unsaluted, unworshiped
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Discourtesy.
Category: 1. Social Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
discourtesy; ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity; uncourteousness; rusticity, inurbanity; illiberality, incivility displacency., disrespect; procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, brusquerie; vulgarity, [more]., churlishness; spinosity, perversity; moroseness (sulenness). sternness; austerity; moodishness, captiousness; cynicism; tartness; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity., scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality., bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump, crosspatch; saucebox; crooked stick; grizzly.
-verbs
be rude; insult; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush., cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear., lose one's temper (resentment) [more]; sulk; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl., render rude; brutalize, brutify.
-adjectives
discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul- mouthed foul-spoken; abusive., uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious., repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier., taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; peevish (irascible).
-adverbs
discourteously; with discourtesy, with a bad grace.
Antonyms: courtesy
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Disrespect.
Category: 2. Moral sentiments
Synonyms:
-nouns
disrespect, disesteem, disestimation; disparagement (dispraise), (detraction) [more]., irreverence; slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae [Vergil], superciliousness (contempt) [more]., vilipendency, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy [more]; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony (ridicule); sarcasm., hiss, hoot, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face.
-verbs
hold in disrespect (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful, be discourteous [more]; treat with disrespect; set down, browbeat., dishonor, desecrate; insult, affront, outrage., speak slightingly of; disparage (dispraise); vilipend, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather., have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, snigger, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.
-adjectives
disrespectful; aweless, irreverent; disparaging; insulting; supercilious (scornful); rude, derisive, sarcastic; scurrile, scurrilous; contumelious., unrespected, unworshiped, unenvied, unsaluted; unregarded, disregarded.
-adverbs
disrespectfully.
Antonyms: respect
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