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adj. - Not showing courteous respect.

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Usage examples (6)
  • From a place in which everyone knew his place, it has become one of the most delightfully undeferential places on earth.
  • She praises the groups who took part in the antinuclear protests at Greenham Common, helped to halt roadbuilding projects through ancient forests, and challenged English laws...
  • PHILLIPS: The British press has a deserved reputation for being extremely bloody minded, taking no prisoners, being, I think, by the standards of many continental countries in...
  • Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them
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