From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlook down on something/somebody phrasal verbPROUDto think that you are better than someone else, for example because you are more successful, or of a higher social class than they are Mr Garcia looks down on anyone who hasn’t had a college education. → look→ See Verb table
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look down on • After all, he is a member of an elite media establishment that both fears and looks down on the talk phenomenon. 