with all due respect

1. Although I think highly of you, as in With all due respect, you haven't really answered my question, or With all due respect, that account doesn't fit the facts. This phrase always precedes a polite disagreement with what a person has said or brings up a controversial point. [c. 1800]

Example Sentences

“Because he started the university, with all due respect to graduates of other universities.”

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Montgomerie, who led the side to victory in 2010 and won five out of eight as a player, joked on BBC Radio 5 Live's Ryder Cup preview programme: "With all due respect Rasmus and Nicolai are the same person really. They shared the same egg, so we have the same team and that's huge."

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“I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back. With all due respect to the good government groups, politics is a political process,” she said at a press conference.

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"With all due respect to the good government groups, politics is a political process."

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With all due respect to Bill Plaschke, why does Clayton Kershaw have to be “greater” than Sandy Koufax, or Don Drysdale for that matter?

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