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蔑視

べっし

contempt, looking down on

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Examples

  1. 女性蔑視の発言だ。

    じょせいべっしのはつげんだ。

    It is a remark that demeans women.

  2. 他国の文化を蔑視してはいけない。

    たこくのぶんかをべっししてはいけない。

    You must not look down on other countries' cultures.

  3. 蔑視されてきた人々の権利が認められつつある。

    べっしされてきたひとびとのけんりがみとめられつつある。

    The rights of people who have long been looked down on are gradually being recognised.

Common patterns

女性蔑視
misogyny, contempt for women
人種蔑視
racial contempt
蔑視的な態度
a contemptuous attitude

Memory tip

You will almost always meet it welded to the group being looked down on — 女性蔑視, 人種蔑視 — so it carries a social-discrimination flavour that plain 軽蔑 does not.

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