look down on

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look down on - regard with contempt; "the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest"

contemn, despise, disdain, scorn - look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

admire, look up to - feel admiration for

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? look down on

vi +prep obj → herabsehen auf (+acc); you shouldn’t look down on his attempts to help → du solltest ihn nicht belächeln, wenn er versucht zu helfen

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Never did April stars look down on a happier band of travellers on the golden road.

The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

You see, it is coming towards us--coming, coming; and, when it gets to Corfe, it will actually go THROUGH the downs, on which we are standing, so that, if we walk over, as I suggested, and look down on Swanage, we shall see it coming on the other side.

Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context

And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he'd been a fool, and fooled away his life; but now he was a-going to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn't be ashamed of, and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

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