Igor was very dismissive.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不屑一顾
to disdain as beneath contempt (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to disdain as beneath contempt (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不屑一顾 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不屑一顾 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He wouldn't look at my proposal.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不屑一顾.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不屑一顾.
Directly before
- 提议不屑一顾1
- 非常不屑一顾1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不屑一顾
What does 不屑一顾 mean in Chinese?
不屑一顾 (bùxièyīgù) means to disdain as beneath contempt (idiom).
How do you pronounce 不屑一顾?
不屑一顾 is pronounced bùxièyīgù.
Is 不屑一顾 an HSK word?
不屑一顾 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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