"with all due respect" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-with all due respect.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} with all due respect, {{en-PP}} with all due respect
  1. (formal, idiomatic) A phrase used before disagreeing with someone or saying something they may find offensive, usually considered polite. Tags: formal, idiomatic Synonyms: with due respect, no offense Related terms: pace, with respect Translations (phrase used before disagreeing with someone): respet deoc'h (Breton), sal' ho kras (Breton), amb tots els respectes (Catalan), 冒昧地說一下 (Chinese Mandarin), 冒昧地说一下 (màomèi de shuō yīxià) (Chinese Mandarin), 恕我直言 (shù wǒ zhíyán) (Chinese Mandarin), med al respekt (Danish), met alle respect (Dutch), met respect (Dutch), kogu lugupidamise juures (Estonian), kaikella kunnioituksella (Finnish), sauf votre respect (French), avec tout le respect que je vous dois (French), bei allem nötigen Respekt (German), bei allem gebotenen Respekt (German), mit Verlaub (German), con tutto il dovuto rispetto (Italian), 全ての敬意をもって (subete no keii wo motte) (Japanese), お言葉ですが (o-kotoba desu ga) (Japanese), med respekt å melde (Norwegian Bokmål), med all respekt (Norwegian Bokmål), z całym szacunkiem (Polish), z należytym szacunkiem (Polish), com todo o respeito (Portuguese), при всём моём уваже́нии (pri vsjom mojóm uvažénii) (Russian), pri všetkej úcte (Slovak), con el debido respeto (Spanish), med all respekt (Swedish), med all aktning för (Swedish), gyda phob dyledus barch (Welsh)

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      "sense": "phrase used before disagreeing with someone",
      "word": "kaikella kunnioituksella"
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      "sense": "phrase used before disagreeing with someone",
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      "sense": "phrase used before disagreeing with someone",
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