[ US /ɹɪˈspɛktfəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪspˈɛktfə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. feeling or manifesting veneration
  2. full of or exhibiting respect
    respectful behavior
    a respectful glance
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How To Use respectful In A Sentence

  • Teachers or students so exempted may remain in the classroom and sit or stand respectfully while others participate in the ceremony.
  • I'm very proud of the film and I think I've been truthful and respectful of his work.
  • Again, a fear of ghosts walking may be the best explanation for burials that appear ‘respectful’ in all other ways.
  • One thing no one can deny is how direspectful the media has been against clinton. Core constituency laments Clinton's exit
  • The tone of Nicholls' biography is dispassionately respectful, admiring even.
  • Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
  • Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. The Egoist
  • He said no disrespect intended, but how can you not be disrespectful saying that? Times, Sunday Times
  • They have always been very respectful of me as a rabbi. Times, Sunday Times
  • They wanted an equal, respectful relationship. Times, Sunday Times
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