Sentence examples of "mépris" in French
Le silence est l'expression la plus parfaite du mépris.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Je n'ai que mépris pour un comportement aussi malhonnête.
I feel nothing but contempt for such dishonest behavior.
Pourtant, malgré toute cette étrange apparence d'humilité et ce mépris pour la raison humaine, il s'aventure dans les suppositions les plus audacieuses.
Yet, with all this strange appearance of humility, and this contempt for human reason, he ventures into the boldest presumptions.
Ne le regarde pas avec mépris juste parce qu'il est pauvre.
Don't look down on him just because he's poor.
Il a sauvé sa fille des flammes au mépris de sa propre vie.
He saved his daughter from the fire at the cost of his own life.
Il a sauvé la vie de son ami au mépris de la sienne.
He saved his friend at the risk of his own life.
Au lieu de lui gifler le visage, elle lui cracha dedans et s'éloigna avec mépris.
Instead of slapping him in the face, she spit in it, and walked contemptuously away.
On donne quelquefois par mépris le nom de bruit à la musique insignifiante et dépourvue de charme.
We sometimes disparagingly call noise, music that's insignificant and devoid of any charm.
Plus récemment, la tension a été nourrie par un colonialisme qui niait des droits et des opportunités à de nombreux musulmans, et une Guerre Froide lors de laquelle les pays à majorité musulmane étaient trop souvent traités comme des agents, au mépris de leurs propres aspirations.
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.
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