Desdeño in english
Disdain
pronunciation: dɪsdeɪn part of speech: noun
pronunciation: dɪsdeɪn part of speech: noun
In gestures
desdeñar = disdain ; scorn ; be scornful of ; hold in + disgrace ; snub ; spurn ; disregard ; despise ; dismiss + Nombre + with the wave of the hand ; look down + Posesivo + nose at ; look down on/upon ; fly in + the face of ; turn (up) + Posesivo + nose (up) at.
Example: If people want regimentation which relieves them of responsibility, how then do you explain parents reaching out for control of schools, disdaining the help of experts.Example: Marshall Edmonds seemed pathetic to her, a person more to be pitied than to be scorned.Example: There is a large number of people who cannot afford paperbacks and would like to read, but are afraid or scornful of the ethos of the middle-class library.Example: Yet, despite his great erudition and powerful writings, his scheme has had little success in establishing itself as a major competitor to such schemes as DC, UDC and LC, which Bliss himself held in some contempt.Example: Some black librarian see little progress towards race-neutral attitudes and finds themselves either directly or indirectly snubbed, patronised or completely ignored by users as well as staff members.Example: The government seems to spurns the architecture profession and there is a growing rift between architects who assert their utility and those who cleave to artistic prerogatives.Example: Although the overwhelming majority of technologically-driven programmes disregard information problems and issues, there are encouraging signs of a growing awareness of the need for information-driven.Example: By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.Example: International 'rules' are often dismissed with the wave of the hand or a snort of contempt one week, and gilded and placed on a pedestal the next.Example: It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.Example: The problem with that is that most literate societies look down on people who can't read well.Example: If a planned activity flies in the face of human nature, its success will be only as great as the non-human factors can ensure.Example: She hasn't turned up her nose at anything since we first put solid food to her lips.desdeño = disdain ; disregard ; sneer.
Example: 'Arnold and the others are too sensitive!' he sneered, spreading his hands in a fantastic gesture of disdain.Example: There is in general a blithe disregard of the limits to pecision imposed by sampling error.Example: At most I have gotten a few sneers and a little derision for my involvement, and I certainly am not doing anything illegal.more:
» con desdeño = disdainfully .
Example: She looked disdainfully at the boys sitting on the left of the room -- they gave her the pip.