VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS
IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS
2. Moral sentiments
Disrespect.
[Antonyms: respect.]
[Nouns] disrespect, disesteem, disestimation; disparagement (dispraise) [more], (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) [more]; sarcasm.
hiss, hoot, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face.
[Verbs] hold in disrespect (despise) [more]; 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) [more]; 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 [more]; laugh to scorn (contempt) [more]; 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 [more]; insulting; supercilious (scornful) [more]; rude, derisive, sarcastic; scurrile, scurrilous; contumelious.
unrespected, unworshiped, unenvied, unsaluted; unregarded, disregarded.
