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English
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Verb
look down on
- (transitive, idiomatic) To regard or treat as inferior.
2009 September 25, Michael Deacon, “Ross Noble: interview”, in Telegraph.co.uk:He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.
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to regard or treat as inferior
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 看不起 (zh) (kànbùqǐ), 瞧不起 (zh) (qiāobùqǐ), 小看 (zh) (xiǎokàn), 俯視/俯视 (zh) (fǔshì), 俯视 (zh) (fǔshì), 輕視/轻视 (zh) (qīngshì), 轻视 (zh) (qīngshì), 鄙視/鄙视 (zh) (bǐshì), 鄙视 (zh) (bǐshì)
- Dutch: neerkijken op
- Finnish: ylenkatsoa, halveksia (fi)
- French: mépriser (fr)
- German: (general) von oben herab behandeln; (from perspective of superior also) hinabsehen auf, hinabschauen auf; (from perspective of inferior also) herabsehen auf, herabschauen auf
- Hungarian: lenéz (hu)
- Italian: guardare in basso
- Japanese: 軽蔑する (ja) (keibetsu suru), 見下ろす (ja) (miorosu)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Latin: despiciō, dēdignor, aspernor
- Lithuanian: žiūrėti iš aukšto
- Maori: whakatakē, tamatama
- Norwegian: se ned på, rakke ned på
- Polish: (please verify) patrzeć z góry
- Portuguese: menosprezar (pt)
- Russian: смотре́ть свысока́ (smotrétʹ svysoká), презира́ть (ru) impf (prezirátʹ)
- Slovak: pozerať (na niekoho) zhora, pozerať opovržlivo
- Spanish: menospreciar (es), ningunear (es)
- Swedish: se ned på
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