Question

2009 September 25, Michael Deacon, “Ross Noble: interview”, in Telegraph.co.uk:

He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.

Accepted Answer

(transitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive) To regard or treat as inferiorhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inferior.

Sentence	2009 September 25, Michael Deacon, “Ross Noble: interview”, in Telegraph.co.uk: He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.
Definition	( transitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive ) To regard or treat as inferior https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inferior .

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