look down on sb
also look down your nose at sb— phrasal verb with look uk/lʊk/us/lʊk/verb
B2 to think that you are better than someone:
She thinks they look down on her because she doesn't have a job.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Treating as unimportant
- blow
- blow sth/sb off
- brush sb/sth aside
- denigrate
- deprecate
- derogate
- derogate from sth
- laugh
- play fast and loose with sth/sb idiom
- pour
- pour scorn on sb/sth idiom
- scorn
- scornful
- scruple
- shrug
- talk
- talk sth down
- wave
- write
- write sb/sth off
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