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look down on (third-person singular simple present looks down on, present participle looking down on, simple past and past participle looked down on)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To regard or treat as inferior.
2009 September 25, Michael Deacon, “Ross Noble: interview”, in Telegraph.co.uk:He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.
- (transitive) To view from a vantage point.
1948 March and April, “A Keypoint in an Intensive Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 115:High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To view from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally, Heaven)
I get a feeling Kurt Cobain is looking down on Nickelback and wondering what alternative rock has become.
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to regard or treat as inferior
- Arabic: تَرَفَّعَ (taraffaʕa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 看不起 (zh) (kànbùqǐ), 瞧不起 (zh) (qiāobùqǐ), 小看 (zh) (xiǎokàn), 俯視/俯视 (zh) (fǔshì), 輕視/轻视 (zh) (qīngshì), 鄙視/鄙视 (zh) (bǐshì)
- Czech: dívat se spatra impf, povyšovat se
- Dutch: neerkijken op
- Finnish: ylenkatsoa, halveksia (fi)
- French: mépriser (fr), regarder de haut (fr)
- German: (general) von oben herab behandeln; (from perspective of superior also) hinabsehen auf, hinabschauen auf; (from perspective of inferior also) herabsehen auf, herabschauen auf
- Hungarian: lenéz (hu)
- Italian: guardare in basso
- Japanese: 見下す (mikudasu), 軽んじる (ja) (karonjiru), 軽視する (ja) (keishi suru), 軽蔑する (ja) (keibetsu suru)
- Korean: 얕보다 (yatboda), 내려다보다 (ko) (naeryeodaboda), 깔보다 (ko) (kkalboda)
- Latin: despiciō, dēdignor, aspernor
- Lithuanian: žiūrėti iš aukšto
- Maori: whakatakē, tamatama
- Norwegian: se ned på, rakke ned på
- Polish: patrzeć z góry (pl) impf
- Portuguese: menosprezar (pt)
- Russian: смотре́ть свысока́ (smotrétʹ svysoká), презира́ть (ru) impf (prezirátʹ)
- Slovak: pozerať (na niekoho) zhora, pozerať opovržlivo
- Spanish: menospreciar (es), ningunear (es)
- Swedish: se ned på
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