Menospreciar in english
Disparage
pronunciation: dɪsperɪdʒ part of speech: verb
pronunciation: dɪsperɪdʒ part of speech: verb
In gestures
menospreciar = underrate ; disparage ; denigrate ; scorn ; belittle ; deprecate ; have + contempt for ; despise ; dismiss + Nombre + with the wave of the hand ; look down + Posesivo + nose at ; look down on/upon ; walk all over + Alguien ; put + Alguien + down ; run + roughshod over ; ride + roughshod over ; thumb + Posesivo + nose at ; turn (up) + Posesivo + nose (up) at ; hold in + contempt ; show + contempt for.
Example: Its contribution in this context should not be underrated.Example: For whatever reason, Shera chose to disparage rather than to take seriously the substance of Briet's ideas.Example: This is not to denigrate such writing, much of which is extremely valuable.Example: Marshall Edmonds seemed pathetic to her, a person more to be pitied than to be scorned.Example: Citing a renowned author merely to gain personal respectability for an otherwise mediocre piece of research belittles the work of the cited author.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: 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: By always looking at people in the eye and keeping your head held high you'll start giving them the vibe that you are not to be walked all over .Example: 'Specifically, I'm told you delight in putting down the professional'.Example: Most troublingly, the Court has run roughshod over important legal precedents, not just in its ruling in January but in many other decisions.Example: A good life for you maybe but not for the people you rode roughshot over.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:
» menospreciar a la gente = 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'.