menosprezar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- decry verb To denounce as harmful.
- scorn verb To feel or show strong contempt for someone or something.
- underestimate verb To judge something to be smaller, less important, or less difficult than it actually is.
Senses
menosprezar is used for these senses in English:
- decry (transitive) To blame for ills.
- look down on (transitive, idiom) To regard or treat as inferior.
- scorn (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- underestimate (transitive) To estimate too low; to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
decry — full definition
- verb To denounce as harmful.
- verb To blame for ills.
scorn — full definition
- verb To feel or show strong contempt for someone or something.
- noun A feeling or display of contempt.