What is "look down on"

Usage examples of "look down on".

She could look down on the cluster of prefabricated huts and sheds, on the brush-grown flat that had been the waterfront when this place had been a seaport on the ocean that was now Syrtis Depression.

They not only kept him from feeling utterly alone, they gave him someone to look down on, too.

From there Cuddy could look down on the raw, brawling town of Neayoruk, down to the smoke and thronging masts of the harbor enclosed by a mole running out to an island half a mile from shore, and to the hammered-metal brightness of the Laconian Gulf beyond.

The thought occurred to him of the life-after-death accounts of people who had been declared dead, were brought back to life, and later described how they were able to look down on their own bodies.

Longarm was a lot taller than average, and she still managed to sort of look down on him even while she was half reclining on one shapely side.

A boy and a girl about my age are leaning on the fence, chatting, and I look down on the prettiest, cleanest pigs Ive ever seen.

When I look down on them, I can also turn and behold on the other side, across the Bay of Naples, the Posilipo, where one of the enchanters who threw magic over them is said to lie in his high tomb at the opening of the grotto.

Umpily was put very high, near the back, where he would look down on the proceedings, but he had the Marquis of Mosrace on his right and the Duke of Whileboth on his left.

I should as soon expect our waiter today to look down on me because I served him as a doctor, as think of looking down on him because he serves me as a waiter.

It has always rankled him that older houses look down on the Freys as upstarts.

And if she be a widow, she takes it upon herself everywhere to look down on everybody, and is inflamed to all boldness by the spirit of pride.

The guests look down on a scene long gone, something quaint and maybe even poignant in the odd architecture of the stage, the costumes and coiffures of the colonists.