with the greatest respect
B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
An advocacy hedge that politely signals firm disagreement, often more emphatic the more courteous it sounds.
With the greatest respect, that submission cannot be reconciled with the decision in Pepper v Hart.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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