"hold one's nose up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> one's nose up"
      },
      "expansion": "hold one's nose up (third-person singular simple present holds one's nose up, present participle holding one's nose up, simple past and past participle held one's nose up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 December 9, Richard Braun, “A Whole New Day For The Party: Giving Us A Voice”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 5:",
          "text": "The era of the \"church-basement liberal\" is over. Those who sit around meeting in the church basements of Cambridge, holding their noses up at the prospect of supporting candidates who don't agree with every last one of their issues, had exactly zero influence in this year's critical elections.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be disdainful or dismissive towards something."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_one's_nose_up-en-verb-WPTpyN1c",
      "links": [
        [
          "disdainful",
          "disdainful"
        ],
        [
          "dismissive",
          "dismissive"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "turn one's nose up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold one's nose up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held one's nose up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> one's nose up"
      },
      "expansion": "hold one's nose up (third-person singular simple present holds one's nose up, present participle holding one's nose up, simple past and past participle held one's nose up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 December 9, Richard Braun, “A Whole New Day For The Party: Giving Us A Voice”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 5:",
          "text": "The era of the \"church-basement liberal\" is over. Those who sit around meeting in the church basements of Cambridge, holding their noses up at the prospect of supporting candidates who don't agree with every last one of their issues, had exactly zero influence in this year's critical elections.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be disdainful or dismissive towards something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disdainful",
          "disdainful"
        ],
        [
          "dismissive",
          "dismissive"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "turn one's nose up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold one's nose up"
}