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Look down on

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To regard or treat as inferior. idiomatic, transitive

    "He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus."

  2. 2
    regard with contempt wordnet
  3. 3
    To view from a vantage point. transitive

    "High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral."

  4. 4
    To view [people or events on Earth] from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally, Heaven). idiomatic, transitive

    "I get a feeling Kurt Cobain is looking down on Nickelback and wondering what alternative rock has become."

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