as in to disdain
to show contempt for
I am tired of the way they look down on us like we aren't good enough for them
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Isn’t the point that Texans, Floridians and Tennesseans disdain big government, and by extension, would like to control it more?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025 -
The reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd has given way to a backlash and a president who disdains efforts at equality, complains of anti-white prejudice and purges powerful Black men and women in the name of a mythical colorblind society.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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This emotional fusion is not a sign of secure love, but a form of over-dependence, often rooted in early family and childhood experiences where individuality was discouraged or disrespected.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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If your boss downgrades your work or disrespects you, this is a huge red flag.—
Julia Sullivan,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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The buildings’ raw, unfinished concrete forms, typically simple, are loved or hated.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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Stone, specifically, wrote that Amazon executives knew something was up once helicopters, which Bezos famously hated, became an obsession of his.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
27 June 2025
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One cast member dissing another’s new business venture.—
John Kell,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Lamar performed several Drizzy disses with the crowd rapping along to nearly every word.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
13 June 2025
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Centrists despised the deep cuts to programs for the poor and elderly.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
1 July 2025
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Many of them love their country but despise what the regime has turned it into.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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“Look down (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look%20down%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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