look down upon

Can you give suggestions on things I can say to shut down and/or redirect conversations with my in-laws when they talk about their past growing up/raising kids poor and look down upon those receiving services as “just not working hard enough?”

We look down upon her as she is cut open, drained of blood and stuffed with reaching hands.

Fourth, the faces that look down upon us with such classical dignity in those portraits by John Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart, and Charles Willson Peale, the voices that speak to us across the ages in such lyrical cadences, seem so mythically heroic, at least in part, because they knew we would be looking and listening.

It's something you feel good about, and you don't talk about it with other people because you feel like they won't understand or that they might look down upon it.

We can thank golf for giving other unfashionable people something to look down upon.