Desprecio in english
Contempt
pronunciation: kəntempt part of speech: noun
pronunciation: kəntempt part of speech: noun
In gestures
despreciar = disparage ; scorn ; despise ; be scornful of ; hold in + disgrace ; snub ; deprecate ; have + contempt for ; look down + Posesivo + nose at ; look down on/upon ; thumb + Posesivo + nose at ; turn (up) + Posesivo + nose (up) at ; hold in + contempt ; show + contempt for.
Example: For whatever reason, Shera chose to disparage rather than to take seriously the substance of Briet's ideas.Example: Marshall Edmonds seemed pathetic to her, a person more to be pitied than to be scorned.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: 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: In these instances, it is important to avoid putting one's colleagues in another unit on the defensive or deprecating another unit to a patron.Example: The androgynous dandy lived the idea of beauty, had contempt for bourgeois values, and was elitist and estranged from women.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: America is criminalizing those who object to its military plans, and is thumbing its nose at the Geneva Convention.Example: She hasn't turned up her nose at anything since we first put solid food to her lips.Example: They are held in contempt by motor racing types because they are not much cop on circuits.Example: Hungary's new media law shows contempt for democracy, the separation of powers and core European ideals.more:
» persona que desprecia u odia = despiser .
Example: What Anselmo maintains on matter of clergy's celibacy, sin of sodomy, monk's and nun's vows of chastity, and about the marriage shows nevertheless that he was not a despiser of the human being.desprecio = scorn ; disdain ; contempt ; put-down ; deprecation ; snub ; sneer ; slight.
Example: I gave him a look of scorn and disgust, but he merely laughed at me.Example: 'Arnold and the others are too sensitive!' he sneered, spreading his hands in a fantastic gesture of disdain.Example: Distribution of any publication that tends to expose an individual to public contempt, ridicule, or disgrace is forbidden.Example: Overt abuse definitions included put-downs, criticism, foul language, explosive anger, and neglect.Example: It uses humor rather than witticisms, and self-deprecation rather than deprecation of the professional field.Example: This is yet another snub to the United Nations Security Council which has imposed economic sanctions on Iran over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.Example: At most I have gotten a few sneers and a little derision for my involvement, and I certainly am not doing anything illegal.Example: She is also capable of incredible tetchiness and can generally take the huff with you over slights you never knew existed.more:
» con desprecio = scornfully ; sneeringly ; contemptuously ; disdainfully .
Example: 'Because he was just a sumph,' answered Gavinia, scornfully. Example: He was smiling at her now, arrogantly and sneeringly. Example: He argued with the judge contemptuously, showing no respect or remorse for his actions. Example: She looked disdainfully at the boys sitting on the left of the room -- they gave her the pip.» decir con desprecio = sneer .
Example: 'Arnold and the others are too sensitive!' he sneered, spreading his hands in a fantastic gesture of disdain.» desprecio por envidia = sour grapes .
Example: Yet the cynical judgment of 'sour grapes' is often passed on a preference adjustment that is prompted by coming to believe that some alternative is no longer feasible.» gesto de desprecio = gesture of disdain .
Example: 'Arnold and the others are too sensitive!' he sneered, spreading his hands in a fantastic gesture of disdain.» hacer un desprecio = slight .
Example: Students who slight preclass preparation are a drag on the class; they will not know what is going on and if they speak at all will frequently attempt to wrest the discussion away from the case to more comfortable topics.» manifestar desprecio = profess + disdain .
Example: Many students graduating from library school and seeking jobs profess disdain for administrative responsibilities not only within the reference section, but also within the library as a whole.» mirar a la gente con desprecio = look down + Posesivo + nose at people .
Example: Well, the point is that we cannot exist looking down our noses at people and saying, 'You should like Trollope instead of Tarzan'.» mirar con desprecio = look down + Posesivo + nose at ; look down on/upon .
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.» mostrar desprecio por = show + contempt for .
Example: Hungary's new media law shows contempt for democracy, the separation of powers and core European ideals.