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look down one's nose en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (followed by at, idiomatic, usually) To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt.
    • You look too high and mighty; customers would think you were looking down your nose at them. 1940, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The House of Lee, Kessinger, published 2005, →ISBN, page 98:
    • [S]he has such a superior look about her, you know, like some snooty society matron, looking down her nose at the rest of us. 2003, Joy Fielding, Whispers and Lies, →ISBN, page 7:
    • The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign. 1952 March 24, “The Press: Fried Crow, à la Mode”, in Time:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
looking down one's nose Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
looks down one's nose Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
looked down one's nose Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
looked down one's nose Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

turn up one's nose · look down on

Translations (7)

mi tirohura (To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt) · it guardare dall'alto in basso (To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt) · de herabsehen (To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt) · ru смотре́ть с высока́ (To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt) · de herabschauen (To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt) · de von oben herab behandeln (To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt) · es mirar por encima del hombro (To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt)