look down on

But I treated all my schoolmates the same; I didn’t look down on kids who didn’t know as much as I did.

“The local gangs looked down on me and called me sissy,” Thomas said.

The portrait of Finley’s wife, Cameron Washington, was perched in the southwest corner, looking down on the space like a kind of patron saint of all the portraits, over a dozen total.

Being so focused on industry means for a long time “they kind of looked down on tourism,” he said.

Funny side characters—the enlightened mom who looks down on people who use diapers; the chatty wife who will not stop talking about her husband’s vasectomy—fill out a believable cast.