Usage examples of "avec mépris" in French with translation to English

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Au lieu de lui gifler le visage, elle lui cracha dedans et s'éloigna avec mépris. Instead of slapping him in the face, she spit in it, and walked contemptuously away.
Il parle toujours du gouvernement avec mépris. He always speaks of the government with contempt.
Ne le regarde pas avec mépris juste parce qu'il est pauvre. Don't look down on him just because he's poor.
Il est dommage que vous ne puissiez voyager avec nous. It is a pity that you cannot travel with us.
Le silence est l'expression la plus parfaite du mépris. Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Je veux voyager avec toi. I want to travel with you.
Je n'ai que mépris pour un comportement aussi malhonnête. I feel nothing but contempt for such dishonest behavior.
Ne sois pas trop dur avec toi-même. Don't be too hard on yourself.
Il a sauvé sa fille des flammes au mépris de sa propre vie. He saved his daughter from the fire at the cost of his own life.
Je souhaiterais prendre rendez-vous avec le docteur King. I'd like to make an appointment with Dr. King.
Pourtant, malgré toute cette étrange apparence d'humilité et ce mépris pour la raison humaine, il s'aventure dans les suppositions les plus audacieuses. Yet, with all this strange appearance of humility, and this contempt for human reason, he ventures into the boldest presumptions.
Son récit de l'incident concorde avec le vôtre. Her account of the incident accords with yours.
Plus récemment, la tension a été nourrie par un colonialisme qui niait des droits et des opportunités à de nombreux musulmans, et une Guerre Froide lors de laquelle les pays à majorité musulmane étaient trop souvent traités comme des agents, au mépris de leurs propres aspirations. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.
Il devient trop familier avec ma femme. He is getting far too familiar with my wife.
On donne quelquefois par mépris le nom de bruit à la musique insignifiante et dépourvue de charme. We sometimes disparagingly call noise, music that's insignificant and devoid of any charm.
Qu'est-ce que ça a à voir avec nos problèmes actuels ? What does this have to do with our current problems?
Il a sauvé la vie de son ami au mépris de la sienne. He saved his friend at the risk of his own life.
Je suis d'accord avec lui dans une certaine mesure, mais pas entièrement. I agree with him to a certain extent, but not entirely.
La première fois que tu rencontres une personne, tu devrais être attentif à la proximité avec laquelle tu te tiens par rapport à elle. The first time you meet people, you should be careful about how near you stand to them.
Je fus d'accord avec elle. I agreed with her.
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