"turn up one's nose" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "When your turn came, you were carefully collared, and led up to the presence, as if even at that awful moment you were mutinously and murderously disposed. The Pasha, looking at you with a vicious sneer, turned up his nose, ejaculated \"'Ajami,\" and prescribed the bastinado.",
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          "text": "... but the rulers scoffed and sneered (turned up their noses) at Him, saying, He rescued others; let Him now rescue Himself, if He is the Christ (the Messiah) of God, His Chosen One!"
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          "sense": "to refuse, especially as due to pride and status",
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      "sense": "to sneer",
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  "etymology_text": "A description of a gesture possibly universally understood as indicating scorn, contempt or disgust.\nAlready found in Ancient Greek as ἐκμυκτηρίζω (ekmuktērízō, “I hold in derision”), from ἐκ- (ek-) (intensifier with additional senses of out from or of the nature of) and μυκτηρίζω (muktērízō, “I turn up the nose, I sneer at”), from the stem μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nostril”).",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to sneer",
      "word": "faire la fine bouche"
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      "sense": "to sneer",
      "word": "lever le nez"
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      "sense": "to sneer",
      "word": "fitja upp á nefið"
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      "sense": "to sneer",
      "word": "setja upp hundshaus"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to refuse, especially as due to pride and status",
      "word": "lever le nez"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to refuse, especially as due to pride and status",
      "word": "fúlsa við"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to refuse, especially as due to pride and status",
      "word": "arricciare il naso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to refuse, especially as due to pride and status",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "kręcić nosem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to refuse, especially as due to pride and status",
      "word": "strâmba din nas"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to refuse, especially as due to pride and status",
      "word": "burun kıvırmak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "turn up one's nose"
}