Translation for "desprecio divertido" to english

Desprecio divertido

• funny contempt
• amused contempt

Translation examples

amused contempt

Ella le acerca la jarra para que beba y lo mira con una especie de desprecio divertido.
She hands him the pitcher and he drinks. She watches him with a sort of amused contempt.

Y vio en los ojos del hombre aquel hosco resentimiento y -lo que era aún peor- un desprecio divertido.
And she saw in his eyes that sullen resentment, and – what put the finishing touch to it – amused contempt.

Lo que oí en sus conversaciones iba desde cierto desprecio divertido hacia sus amos blancos hasta un odio virulento contra ellos.
What I heard was everything from amused contempt for their white masters to smothering hatred.

Así era como habían hablado de ella desde el principio: notó en sus voces un eco de desprecio divertido, lo notó con claridad cuando madame Merle afirmó haber detectado en sus palabras un eco de las revelaciones murmuradas hacía tanto tiempo por la doncella florentina a su desgarbada controparte inglese.
This was how they had discussed her, among themselves, from the start—she could hear in their voices the authentic ring of casual and amused contempt, could hear it as clearly as Madame Merle had claimed to have heard in hers the echo of the little Florentine maid’s whispered disclosures, long ago, to her gangly controparte inglese.