look down on
Example Sentences
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When addressing someone they look down on or are disrespecting, the Yautja use wul, while someone they respect would be addressed as dau.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025
Do you look down on huge planes and boats and Beyoncé birthday parties?
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
It's likely that you have not heard of Taiwan's Hong Fu Industrial Group, but look down on a busy street and you may well see its products.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2025
These are clowns, these are people who are ridiculous because they want so desperately to be welcomed by the very people who look down on them.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2024
Probably Mrs. Willard's simultaneous interpreter would be short and ugly and I would come to look down on him in the end the way I looked down on Buddy Willard.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
