Word · 単語
蔑む
Reading さげすむ
to scorn
to scorn · to despise · to hold in contempt · to look down on · to disdain
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例文 · examples
貧しい人をさげすんではならない。
You should not look down upon the poor.
中世の教会は肉体をさげすみ霊をたたえた。
The medieval church despised the body and exalted the spirit.
多分男の唯一真実な威厳は、自分自身をさげすむことができる能力であろう。
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.