looking down one's nose
looking down one's nose is the present participle and gerund of look down one's nose.
Meaning of look down one's nose
Verb
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)
- To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt.
- You look too high and mighty; customers would think you were looking down your nose at them.1940, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The House of Lee, Kessinger, published 2005, →ISBN, page 98
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