单词 | to look down on |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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). ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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