Lingaku蔑む【さげすむ】
Frequency rank: 10,546. – 10,567.
- to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain
Godan verb with 'mu' ending; transitive verb
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- to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain
This term is used to describe an attitude of deep disapproval or contempt towards someone or something, often accompanied by a feeling of superiority.
Generated collocations (experimental)
さげすむ蔑むこころ心a disdainful heartひと人をさげすむ蔑むto scorn othersさげすまれた蔑まれたそんざい存在a despised existenceけいべつ軽蔑してさげすむ蔑むto disdainfully scornさげすむ蔑むめ目a scornful gazeじぶん自分をさげすむ蔑むto despise oneselfさげすむ蔑むことば言葉scornful wordsさげすむ蔑むたいど態度a contemptuous attitudeさげすむ蔑むようなわらい笑いa scornful laughしんじつ真実をさげすむ蔑むto look down on the truth
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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The medieval church despised the body and exalted the spirit.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
4. かつてわたくし私のらてんごラテン語きょうし教師は、めがねメガネのえん縁からいかめしくわたくし私をみくだしていた見下していた。でもいま今は、それはただ、かのじょ彼女がどくしょ読書よう用のめがねをかけていたメガネをかけていたので、それをしょっちゅうはずす外すこと事をやっかいにおもった思ったのだとわかる分かる。つまり、わたしたち私たちせいと生徒にむけて向けてまるでさげすんでいる蔑んでいるようにみえていた見えていたものは、どうやらじっさい実際はやさし優しさだったのである。
My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like contempt towards us students might well and truly have been kindness.