Sentence examples of "mépriser" in French with translation "despise"

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Il ne faut pas mépriser un homme à cause de sa pauvreté. You must not despise someone because they are poor.
On ne devrait pas mépriser un homme juste parce qu'il est mal payé. You should not despise a man just because he is poorly paid.
La vraie noblesse de l'Homme est peut-être sa capacité à se mépriser lui-même. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Elle méprise les gens qui mentent. She despises people who lie.
Il méprisait ceux qui vivent des allocations. He despised those who lived on welfare.
Ne méprise pas un homme parce qu'il est pauvre. Don't despise a man because he is poor.
Ne méprisez pas les autres parce qu'ils sont pauvres. Don't despise others because they are poor.
Certains de ses étudiants l'admiraient, et d'autres le méprisaient. Some of his students admired him, and others despised him.
Il méprise le cadeau le plus raffiné que Dieu a fait à l'homme : le don de la raison. He despises the choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason.
Christophe Colomb méprisait les pirates, mais il aimait beaucoup leurs bandeaux. Un jour, il en porterait un - juste pour s'amuser. Christopher Columbus despised pirates, but he loved their eyepatches. Sometimes, he would wear one - just for fun.
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