Translation for "canallesco" to english
Canallesco
adjective
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Translation examples
adjective
Bueno, he interrogado a cada residente de ese centro de rehabilitación, y es lo que el canallesco ex-novio nos contó.
Well, I-I questioned every resident in that halfway house, and it's just like the scummy ex-boyfriend said.
Era una necesidad que abarcaba el cuerpo, las manos, los pies, los órganos genitales, los olores canallescos, la suciedad cuajada, aunque todo fueran palabras o murmullos soñolientos.
It was a need that had the body in it, hands, feet, genitals, scummy odors, clotted dirt, even if it was all talk or sleepy murmur.
adjective
Yo llamo a eso un diagnóstico altamente canallesco!
I call that a highly caddish diagnosis!
Aquella primera carta era un texto inmundo, con su canallesca referencia a la mujer del vicario por su nombre de pila.
That first one was filthy stuff, with its caddish reference to the Vicar's wife by her Christian name.
La vivaz e inmadura Gilberte de Sartorys, apodada Frou-Frou, ha albergado en su casa a su hermana retraída y soltera, Louise, un dechado de virtud femenina que, inevitablemente, llega a sustituir a la mimada e infantil esposa en el afecto de su hijito y su marido, tras lo cual, imaginándose traicionada por su hermana, Frou-Frou se fuga con el canallesco pretendiente anterior, quien nunca ha dejado de asediarla, y regresa varios años después, arrepentida y mortalmente debilitada: su marido la perdona y se le permite abrazar a su hijo antes de morir.
Vivacious, immature Gilberte de Sartorys, whose nickname is Frou-Frou, has introduced into her household her self-effacing unmarried sister, Louise, a paragon of female virtue, who inevitably comes to replace the spoiled child-wife in the affections of her little son and her husband, whereupon, imagining herself betrayed by her sister, Frou-Frou runs off with the caddish former suitor who had never stopped pursuing her, only to return several years later, penitent and mortally enfeebled, and be forgiven by her husband and permitted to embrace their child before she dies.
adjective
Puedo asegurarte que donde he estado todos estos años por tu culpa no he visto muchas caras igual de canallescas.
And I can tell you where I've been all these years, because of you. I've seen some mean faces. Plenty of them.
Es decir, frío, malintencionado y canallesco.
He was cold, mean, vicious.
A pesar de la intrínseca ambigüedad del término, al oírselo se lo había entendido sin vacilación como sinónimo de «infame», «canallesco» o «vil», en modo alguno de «pecaminoso» u «obsceno».
Despite the intrinsically ambiguous nature of the term, when I heard him say it, I understood him to mean ‘vile’, ‘despicable’ or ‘base’, and certainly not ‘sinful’ or ‘obscene’.
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