Examples of using "Mépris" in a sentence and their english translations:
It's disrespect or rudeness.
He always speaks of the government with contempt.
You misinterpreted what I wrote.
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
I feel nothing but contempt for such dishonest behavior.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
I admire your ignorance.
and you get fed up of people sneeringly describe things as gay.
There was a scornful note in his voice.
I am offended by your blatant disregard for my feelings.
Vera looked down on Sergey because he was cheating on his wife.
He kept on drinking in defiance of his doctor's warning.
Don't look down on him just because he's poor.
He jumped into the river in defiance of the icy water.
Some separatists scornfully call the Tamazight language "tabiɣbiɣt."
It starts with harassment in everyday life, with exclusion, with contempt,
I listened to her in silence, stunned by the depth of her contempt.
He saved his friend at the risk of his own life.
He saved his daughter from the fire at the cost of his own life.
Instead of slapping him in the face, she spit in it, and walked contemptuously away.
But he could not hide his contempt for the returning aristocrats, who treated his family
We sometimes disparagingly call noise, music that's insignificant and devoid of any charm.
The children of American soldiers staying in Japan and Japanese women were disparagingly called half-breeds.
- Don't look down on him merely because he is poor.
- Don't look down on him just because he's poor.
Yet, with all this strange appearance of humility, and this contempt for human reason, he ventures into the boldest presumptions.
More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.
Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities.