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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
- In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- Today, Clark said, New Yorkers could stand on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and look down on a present-day active whale habitat.
- From there they could look down on the city's fine new skyscrapers and modern apartment blocks.
- Glover would crawl out after him on the roof at the top of the house and look down on the lake.
- It was really nice just to follow the cliffs and look down onto a dead calm sea with a setting sun in the west giving the whole scene a nice warm glow.
- No one will look down on you for being honest. The Sun
- Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language.
- Worst of all, the neighbours can look down on you from their newer, swankier properties. Times, Sunday Times
- I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill
- Although members of the upper classes are not above profiting from the cocaine trade, they look down on the narcos in the same way that wealthy people the world over disdain the nouveau riche.