Example Sentences

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Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton.

From Time Magazine Archive

The G.I.s were not unrespectful, he recalls: "They never entered my home."

From Time Magazine Archive

It's impolite and unrespectful of the other members to participate in online discussions using a false identity.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

When Miss Huggins heerd this, she sed something unrespectful of milliner gals.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

"Bob's gettin' wonderful unrespectful, callin' Mr. Toobridge 'Shad!'" remarked Ed.

From The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob by Wallace, Dillon