Synonyms: disrespectful
Definition: exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous
Usage: remarks disrespectful of the law; disrespectful in the presence of his parents; disrespectful toward his teacher
Similar words: devastating, withering, annihilating
Definition: making light of
Usage: afire with annihilating invective; a devastating portrait of human folly; to compliments inflated I've a withering reply- W.S.Gilbert
Similar words: disdainful, contemptuous, scornful, insulting
Definition: expressing extreme contempt
Similar words: contumelious
Definition: arrogantly insolent
Similar words: derisive, gibelike, mocking, jeering, taunting
Definition: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule
Usage: derisive laughter; a jeering crowd; her mocking smile; taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'
Similar words: undutiful, impious
Definition: lacking due respect or dutifulness
Usage: impious toward one's parents; an undutiful son
Similar words: impudent, insolent, flip, snotty-nosed
Definition: marked by casual disrespect
Usage: a flip answer to serious question; the student was kept in for impudent behavior
Similar words: undeferential
Definition: not showing courteous respect
Synonyms: disrespectful, aweless, awless
Definition: neither feeling nor showing respect
Similar words: irreverent
Definition: showing lack of due respect or veneration
Usage: irreverent scholars mocking sacred things; noisy irreverent tourists