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单词 to look down on
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to look down on (also upon)
c. Originally Scottish. to look down on (also upon): to regard with scorn or contempt; to consider oneself superior to. Cf. to look down one's nose (at) at nose n. Phrases 1c(b).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)]
forhowc900
overhowOE
withhuheOE
forhecchec1230
scorna1275
despise1297
spise13..
to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303
to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320
to think scorn ofc1320
to set short by1377
to tell short of1377
to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390
spitea1400
contemnc1425
nought1440
overlooka1450
mainprizec1450
lightly1451
vilipendc1470
indeign1483
misprize1483
dain?1518
to look down on (also upon)1539
floccipend1548
contempta1555
to take scorn ata1566
embase1577
sdeign1590
disesteem1594
vilify1599
to set lightly, coldly1604
disrepute1611
to hold cheapa1616
avile1616
floccify1623
meprize1633
to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642
publican1648
naucify1653
disesteem1659
invalue1673
to set light, at light1718
sneeze1806
sniff1837
derry1896
to hold no brief for1918
1539 in Protocol Bk. Sir J. Cristisone (1928) 66 Ȝe have lukit dovne one me..throcht certane vourdis of displessour I spak of ȝow at this kirk.
a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 290 All wther secreittis and inventiouns that he could inwent contrair lord Home and his brother to cause the Duike of Albanie looke doune on them.
1656 A. Stafford President Female Perfection 99 We commonly looke downe on things despicable.
1673 W. Allen Disc. Nature Two Covenants v. 120 The unbelieving Jews..looked down upon them with contempt.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 255. ¶9 A solid and substantial Greatness of Soul looks down with a generous Neglect on the Censures and Applauses of the Multitude.
1785 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) i. 44 Where people are sufficiently raised to have their minds polish'd though not enough to look down on a person.
1853 H. D. Mackenzie Life in Mission, Camp, & Zenáná II. iii. 84 The parents now complain that their sons look down on them for being so ignorant.
1893 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 July 476/1 They are..looked down upon and scorned.
1915 T. L. Golden Let. 30 May in Lett. from Front (Canadian Bank of Commerce) (1920) I. 19 Ready to look down upon the Britisher as a good-for-nothing lady-like cissy.
1960 Spectator 24 June 931/3 The French have always looked down on Italian wines.
2009 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Feb. 44 A tipsy Nixon phones Frost to rage at the people who have looked down on him all his life.
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