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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

Here, everything has to be said and admitted honestly as it is, no matter how unrespectful it may seem or how much it might hurt.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

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