Vocabulary

Form

to look down (on); to condescend (to)

verb vt
freq #44

Example sentences

He looks down on women.

You mustn't despise him because he didn't win a prize.

Boys tend to look down on their younger sisters.

We should not look down on poor people.

The rich are apt to look down upon the poor.

You should never look down on a man merely because he is poor.

This is out of the blue, but has everybody once felt 'looked down upon by young folk'?

Sometimes rich people look down on other people who do not have much money.