look down
verb
- regard with contempt
Wiktionary
verb
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, down.
“look down someone's shirt”
- To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards.
- To fix one's gaze upon (someone) until they look away; to stare down.
“Thurlow, forbear thy awful frown; / I beg you may not look me down […].”
- To decrease in value.