"look down one's nose" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "looks down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "looking down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "looked down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "looked down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "look down one's nose (third-person singular simple present looks down one's nose, present participle looking down one's nose, simple past and past participle looked down one's nose)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The House of Lee, Kessinger, published 2005, page 98",
          "text": "You look too high and mighty; customers would think you were looking down your nose at them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 March 24, “The Press: Fried Crow, à la Mode”, in Time",
          "text": "The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Joy Fielding, Whispers and Lies, page 7",
          "text": "[S]he has such a superior look about her, you know, like some snooty society matron, looking down her nose at the rest of us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
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        ],
        [
          "regard",
          "regard"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "distasteful",
          "distasteful"
        ],
        [
          "contempt",
          "contempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, usually followed by at) To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by at"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "look down on"
        },
        {
          "word": "turn up one's nose"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "english": "auf",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
          "word": "herabschauen"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
          "word": "guardare dall'alto in basso"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
          "word": "tirohura"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "smotrétʹ s vysoká",
          "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "смотре́ть с высока́"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
          "word": "mirar por encima del hombro"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "look down one's nose"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "looks down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "looking down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "looked down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "looked down one's nose",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "look down one's nose (third-person singular simple present looks down one's nose, present participle looking down one's nose, simple past and past participle looked down one's nose)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "look down on"
    },
    {
      "word": "turn up one's nose"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The House of Lee, Kessinger, published 2005, page 98",
          "text": "You look too high and mighty; customers would think you were looking down your nose at them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 March 24, “The Press: Fried Crow, à la Mode”, in Time",
          "text": "The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Joy Fielding, Whispers and Lies, page 7",
          "text": "[S]he has such a superior look about her, you know, like some snooty society matron, looking down her nose at the rest of us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "at",
          "at#English"
        ],
        [
          "regard",
          "regard"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "distasteful",
          "distasteful"
        ],
        [
          "contempt",
          "contempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, usually followed by at) To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by at"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "usually"
      ]
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "auf",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
      "word": "herabschauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
      "word": "guardare dall'alto in basso"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
      "word": "tirohura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "smotrétʹ s vysoká",
      "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "смотре́ть с высока́"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt",
      "word": "mirar por encima del hombro"
    }
  ],
  "word": "look down one's nose"
}