hold one's nose up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be disdainful or dismissive towards something.
Example Sentences
- "The era of the "church-basement liberal" is over. Those who sit around meeting in the church basements of Cambridge, holding their noses up at the prospect of supporting candidates who don't agree with every last one of their issues, had exactly zero influence in this year's critical elections."