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不屑一顾

bù xiè yī gù

HSK 6 4-character word Traditional 不屑一顧

What 不屑一顾 means

1. to disdain as beneath contempt (idiom)

The characters in 不屑一顾

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 屑xièbits; fragments; crumbs
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 顾gùto look after; to take into consideration; to attend to

Example sentences

• 伊戈尔非常不屑一顾。
  Igor was very dismissive.
• 他对我的提议不屑一顾。
  Tā duì wǒ de tíyì bùxièyīgù.
  He wouldn't look at my proposal.

Where 不屑一顾 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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