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What is a single word in English which means to look down on others (due to their younger age, lower socio-economic position, lesser experience, etc)

Not look down upon everyone else in general, but look down upon some particular person due to a feeling of superiority of oneself over them ( this superiority may come from the fact that one feels has more money, talent, etc)?

By «look down upon» I don’t mean just the feeling of having superiority over another, but acting to them in a manner that reflects this pride as well (for example, perhaps he acts very rudely to them, since he feels superior to them and feels he can get away with it, or he feels it doesn’t matter at all due to his superiority)

tchrist♦

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asked Nov 27, 2014 at 0:08

You can consider condescend (to sb). If you condescend to somebody, you show feelings of superiority and you can even be patronizing toward that person. So, you actually show it in your actions and this can be called a condescending behavior.

to treat someone as if you are more important or more intelligent than them

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Further details from vocabulary.com:

If you are being condescending, you are looking down on someone. A 10-year-old who says to his sibling, «What do you know? You’re only a 6-year-old!» is being condescending.

The Latin prefix con- means «with,» and the Latin word for descend means «down,» so the word condescending probably developed to describe someone who looked down on others. Condescending behavior is, not surprisingly, itself looked down upon. It’s usually intended to make people feel bad about not knowing or having something, and it very often works.

Note: There is the pejorative term condescending prick also.

Related:
What does ‘condescending’ exactly mean?

answered Nov 27, 2014 at 6:21

ermanenermanen

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Disdain
Scorn

Both mean to look on with contempt (or, in noun form, describe the act of looking on with contempt). (And there is the archaic contemn ) Both also imply a public, unashamed display of contempt (scorn even more so than disdain, I think).

He scorned their banal condolences; they were beneath his dignity.

We disdained him as a traitor and a coward.

answered Nov 27, 2014 at 0:19

itsbruceitsbruce

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Were you looking for the verb «To patronize» by any chance, because I have remembered it when reading the answers here and it is what I was looking for.

Patronize | Verb |

Definiton: treat with an apparent kindness which betrays a feeling of superiority.

«‘She’s a good-hearted girl,’ he said in a patronizing voice»

Synonyms: treat condescendingly, treat with condescension, condescend to, look down on, talk down to, put down, humiliate, treat like a child, treat as inferior, treat with disdain, treat scornfully/contemptuously, be snobbish to

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answered Sep 1, 2017 at 6:17

Supercilious is a word to descend people with think they are superior to others

answered Apr 7, 2018 at 21:05

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look down

1. To glance or gaze downward (at someone or something). The married couple looked down at us from the balcony of the hotel. He always gets embarrassed and looks down at his feet when I go over to talk to him. Why are you looking down in all of the photos I have of you?

2. To glance or gaze along or through something. I looked down the pipe, but I couldn’t see anything obstructing it. If you look down the length of the board, you can see where it has started to warp from the moisture.

3. To regard someone or something as contemptible or inferior to oneself and thus act in a haughty or snobbish manner toward them or it. The well-dressed businessman looked down on the young woman wearing jeans and a T-shirt in the elevator, not knowing that she was the company’s new CEO. I have no idea why some people look down at those who speak with an accent—that means they know at least two languages!

look down

(at someone or something)

1. to turn one’s gaze downward at someone or something. She looked down at me and giggled at the awkward position I was in. She looked down and burst into laughter.

2. and look down one’s nose at someone or something; look down on someone or something to view someone or something as lowly or unworthy. She looked down at all the waiters and treated them badly. They looked down on our humble food. Don’t look down your nose at my car just because it’s rusty and noisy.

look down

1. To view something from above: We looked down at the rocky coast and watched the waves crash onto the shore.

2. look down on To be situated so as to provide a view of something from above: The living room of my apartment looks down on a parking lot.

3. look down on To disapprove of something or someone: My boss looks down on tardiness. The landlord looked down on tenants who could not pay rent on time.

look down

on/upon

To regard with contempt or condescension.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

See also:

a load off (one’s) feet
a load off feet
close down
close down and shut down
be down to (one)
be down to somebody/something
be down to something
be down to (do something)
be down for (something)
bounce up and down

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И сейчас Эмми смотрит на вас с небес.

It’s on top of the arts, looking down on the world, just like its production.

Он поверх искусств, смотрит на мир, как и его производство.

Галлагер смотрит на меня с презрением.

Хоган нахмурился, глядя на импровизированную карту.

He goes out sometimes, at night, looking down the Black Pad for him.

Он выходит иногда, ночью, смотрит на Блэк Пад.

Up there she is floating and maybe she is looking down at us.

Теперь она парит в небесах, и, может быть, смотрит на нас.

Следующее, что я помню, я стою на выступе окна и смотрю вниз.

Я на вершине мира, глядя на творение…♪.

Every so often, he’s stopping and looking down at the ground.

Время от времени он останавливается и смотрит на землю.

Said Frodo doubtfully, looking down at Gollum with searching eyes.

C сомнением повторил Фродо, вопросительно глядя на Горлума.

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смотреть свысока, смотреть сверху вниз, презирать, падать

глагол

- потупить взор
- (on, upon) смотреть свысока; смотреть с презрением, презирать
- ком. иметь тенденцию к понижению, слабеть (о ценах)

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Словосочетания

look down — дешеветь, падать в цене
to look down one’s nose (at) — смотреть свысока (на кого-л., что-л.)
look down from the past — взирать из глубины веков на будущее
look down on — смотреть свысока
look down/shoot down — обнаружение и поражение целей в нижней полусфере
look down the enemy’s throat — просматривать систему обороны противника на всю глубину