Overlook
To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.
Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.
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Overlook Quotations
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Pope John XXIII
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton
Overlook Translations
overlook in Danish is udelade
overlook in Dutch is verzaken, nalaten, uitlaten
overlook in Latin is despecto
overlook in Portuguese is negligencie
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