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To: wideawake
“Disrespect” is indeed a word. Shakespeare used it.

But as a noun. People who use it as a verb annoy me no end.

170 posted on 02/02/2015 7:24:59 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
But as a noun.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "disrespect" has been used as a verb since 1614.

Puritan divine and Cambridge don Joseph Hall wrote of the "two masters" passage of the Gospel: "If he love the one, he must disrespect the other."

Victorian novelist George Meredith wrote: "You will judge whether he disrespects me."

Thomas Paine wrote participially in "The Rights of Man" as follows: 'Reflecting how wretched was the condition of a disrespected man."

It is a perfectly good, direct and descriptive English verb.

185 posted on 02/02/2015 9:00:56 AM PST by wideawake
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