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regard with contempt
the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest
How To Use look down on In A Sentence
- And it's weird, no one really gets angry at me for piking ... they just seem to look down on me, if you get what I mean. Stupid
- In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta.
- I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
- EL ALTO, Bolivia — Tattered dummies look down on this city from street poles in barren squares, like scarecrows for anyone with bad intentions. The Wind From The South
- In Greenland, I was helicoptered up to the top of a mountain, from where you can look down on these amazing blue structures.
- What I find a bit exasperating is encountering poets (of a certain age) who somehow look down on online publications as beneath a “real” publication (read print). In Praise of Online Journals : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- The snob uses language to look down on the rest of the world. Times, Sunday Times
- Bear in mind that this rule applies even in the case of extreme digitigrade organisms in which a ‘ventral’ or ‘plantar’ view of the ankle in a natural life position requires one to look down on the tarsals and see the top side of the foot.
- We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too.