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Define With All Due Respect Meaning

With All Due Respect
In military parlance it means 'no more respect than protocol requires me to show'. Opposite of the term: 'with respect'.

Said to a superior, a means of veiling contempt adequately enough to evade disciplinary action (depending on the words following it.) Applied frequently by top brass toward Congressmen during Senate Committee Hearings.

Said to a subordinate (rarely,) it sarcastically emphasizes how little respect the superior is required to SHOW, and how much less they're required to HAVE for the subordinate.

Commander Knox: Admiral, with all due respect, this is my boat.
Admiral Graham: Not anymore, "with all due respect".
By Maybelle
With All Due Respect
A statement that when you hear you know your reply should be FUCK YOU!

Tom: With all due respect, I don't fancy you..I only fancy hot women.
Sheila: With all due respect, fuck you!
By Korella
With All Due Respect
another way to say "listen to me, you stubborn idiot!"

with all due respect, you should keep your hands off my keyboard.

with all due respect, keep that shit to yourself.
By Stephanie
With All Due Respect
‎"'With all due respect' is a much nicer way of saying 'Listen here, you fucking moron.'" --Andy Borowitz

"With all due respect to the folks that are out there running for office, as well, but if you replace a Democrat insider with a Republican insider, do you think that is gonna change a thing in Washington, D.C.?" --Rick Perry
By Con
With All Due Respect
The phrase is a projection, an analysis, if you will of mental attributes or deficiencies.

Mr. Carpenter, with all due respect, when one uses the phrase "with all due respect", it actually means you consider the person you're talking-to is a moron. With all due respect.
By Sherry
All Due Respect
A term to soften the blow when you tell a superior something they don't wan't to here.

Boss: "This company will be putting our money into the Pewter housing development"
Employee: "All Due Respect, I think that is a mistake"
Boss: "..."
By Lindsey
With All Due Respect
A term that is used to diffuse the impact of an insult. This has been used, albeit to poor effect, in parliament.

Paul Gogarty, a member of Ireland's Green Party, unloaded some fairly colourful language on Labour Party member Emmet Stagg during a debate using this term.

"With all due respect and in the most unparliamentary language, f**k you Deputy Stagg, f**k you, ". He then added, "I apologize now for my use of unparliamentary language."
By Bobbee
With All Due Respect
A polite way of saying "Kiss my ass."

Kaiden: With all due respect Gunnery Chief, it's really not your decision.

Ashely: Why is it when someone says "with all due respect" they really mean, "kiss my ass"?
By Austine
With All Due Respect
A common phrase used before criticizing someone to avoid violent confrontation.

Bob: With all due respect Steve, you're useless. Incompetence itself.

Steve: Where the fuck is my "due" respect?
By Eddi
With All Due Respect
Expression used in an argument to indicate that there is no respect and that in any case it is not due.

Depending on the context, also means moron.

Officer, with all due respect, I am not drunk. Your breathalyzer does not work properly.
By Liv