Translation for "despreciaban" to english

Despreciaban

verb

• despise
• look down on
• misprize
• sniff at
• misprise

Translation examples

despise verb

Hoy la palabra encarnar la visión de los asesinatos y de las fosas comunes, así como de los macabros esfuerzos de los nazis por exterminar a personas que despreciaban.
Today, the word embodies the vision of murders and mass graves, and of the Nazis' grim efforts to wipe out people whom they despised.

Esto ocurrió poco después de la visita al SIZO de dos altos funcionarios del Departamento de Estado para la Ejecución de Sentencias (región de Jmelnitsk) que, al parecer, despreciaban al autor desde la época en que trabajaba en dicho Departamento.
This happened shortly after the visit to the SIZO of two high-ranking officers of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences (Khmelnitsk region), who apparently despised the author from the time of his service there.

Era el hogar del comunismo, una ideología que temían y despreciaban a la vez.
It was the home of Communism - an ideology they both feared and despised.

Algunos la despreciaban.
Some despised her.

¿Por qué lo despreciaban?
Why was he despised?

Smith era lo que quienes estaban en contra del alcohol despreciaban:
NARRATOR: Smith was everything the drys despised...

Munro y Plummer... se despreciaban mutuamente.
Munro and Plummer... despised each other.

Mis padres me odiaban y mis asistentes me despreciaban.
My parents hated me and my retainers despised me.

Las chicas que le envidiaban, y los que la despreciaban.
The girls who envied her, and the ones who despised her.

Tú sabes que le despreciaban.
You know yourself they despise him.

Cuando íbamos al colegio, nos despreciaban.
When we were at school, they would despise us.

Menos a ti, todas las mujeres nos despreciaban.
Excepting you, all these women despise them.

despreciaban al muchacho.
They despised the boy.

Despreciaban la inteligencia.
They despised intelligence.

Quienes no lo eran, lo despreciaban.
Those who didn’t despised it.

como marinero, lo despreciaban.
as a sailor, they despised him.

Ambos despreciaban a los confucianos;
Both despised the Confucians;

Muchos de los otros esclavos me despreciaban por eso.
Many of the other slaves despised me for it.

Nos despreciaban a los dos.
We were both so despised.

Eran muchos los polacos que nos despreciaban.
So many Poles despised us.

Pero es que los Aiel despreciaban las ciudades.
Aiel despised cities, though.

look down on verb

Y, sobre todo, despreciaban a personas como yo.
And they especially looked down on people like me.

Me despreciaban porque «vivía de su caridad».
They all looked down on me because I was “living on their charity”.

¿Quién quería estar con personas que te despreciaban por divertirte un poco?
Who needed people who looked down on you for having a little fun?

Despreciaban a los aldeanos como si fueran cierto tipo de animales.
They looked down on the villagers as though they were some other animal.

Que otros presos ventilaban opiniones sobre él, lo mencionaban, lo despreciaban.
That other inmates had opinions about him, mentioned him, looked down on him.

Los médicos, como casi todos los hindúes, los despreciaban y los consideraban intocables.
The doctors, like most Hindus, looked down on them and considered them to be Untouchable.

Luego decidí que era una forma de intimidar a los cristianos, a quienes despreciaban porque temían la peste.
Later I decided this was how they intimidated the Christians they looked down on for being afraid of the plague.

Notó que su indecisión y su borrachera eran bastante evidentes, y que le despreciaban por ambas—.
He could tell that everyone around him knew how confused he was, and how drunk, and looked down on him for this.

Los militares y magistrados romanos nos despreciaban a los que habíamos nacido en Britania por ser bárbaros.
The Roman-born officers and magistrates looked down on us British-born as though we were barbarians.