侮蔑

• 読み: ぶべつ
• ローマ字: bubetsu
• 漢字の分解: 侮 (bu) — scorn, look down on; 蔑 (betsu) — despise, slight
• 発音: /bɯ.be.tsɯ/

意味

Contempt; scorn; an attitude of regarding someone as worthless or undeserving of respect.

A noun (also 侮蔑する) expressing active disdain — treating someone as beneath consideration. Stronger than 軽蔑, 侮蔑 often implies a deliberate and visible display of contempt. It appears in legal contexts (侮蔑的発言, contemptuous statements), literature, and discussions of discrimination and human dignity.

例文

1. 上司が部下を侮蔑するような言葉を使うのは、ハラスメントに当たる。
2. 彼の顔には隠しきれない侮蔑の表情が浮かんでいた。
3. 社会的弱者への侮蔑は、いかなる理由があろうと許されない。

使い方ガイド

場面: discrimination, workplace, ethics, social commentary

トーン: disapproving

起源と歴史

Compound of 侮 (to scorn, to look down upon) and 蔑 (to despise, to slight). Both characters share the semantic field of contempt and disrespect, making their combination emphatic.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Educated