look down

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look down

1. (intr, adverb; foll by on or upon) to express or show contempt or disdain (for)

look down one's nose at Informal to be contemptuous or disdainful of

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vi → hinunter-/heruntersehen or -schauen (dial) → or -gucken (inf); we looked down the hole → wir sahen etc ins Loch hinunter; look down on the valley below → sieh etc ins Tal hinunter

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Place a penny on the middle of one of your tables in Space; and leaning over it, look down upon it.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

It would have made a fine picture, worthy of Rembrandt, the gloomy winding stairs illuminated by the reddish glare of the cresset of Gryphus, with his scowling jailer's countenance at the top, the melancholy figure of Cornelius bending over the banister to look down upon the sweet face of Rosa, standing, as it were, in the bright frame of the door of her chamber, with embarrassed mien at being thus seen by a stranger.

The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

To look down upon myself, and even upon my stars: that only would I call my SUMMIT, that hath remained for me as my LAST summit

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

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