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1721 C. Cibber Refusal I. 3 A Man must be nice indeed, that turns up his Nose at a Woman, who has no worse Imperfection, than setting too great a Value upon her Understanding.

1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxiii. 191 Though, for aught I know, they too might turn up their noses at it.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clix. 82 Antonia.., turning up her nose, with looks abused Her master.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 28 The better classes turn up their noses at these odoriferous delicacies of the peasantry.

a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 7 What learning there was in those days..turned up its nose at the strains of the native minstrels.

1921 J. Galsworthy To Let iii. xi. 306 That chap Jolyon's water-colours were on view there. He went in to look down his nose at them—it might give him some faint satisfaction.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iv. 102 When you were all little babies, I used to sing and dance all day. The English neighbours would say ‘That young Mrs Middleton's quite mad,’ and look down their noses.

1986 L. Nkosi Mating Birds xiv. 92 No need for you to turn up your nose like that because things are not what they used to be.