when someone looks at somone in a humiliating way

[alpacinou]

Hello.

Sometimes, a person looks at another person in a humiliating way. Their eyes moved up and down the other person and they mean to degrade that person with that look.

How can I describe that?

Emily entered the bar, disheveled and smelly. Laura looked at her....[her eyes moved up and down Emily's figure in a humiliating way]

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps you could say she looked at her disdainfully.

 

[alpacinou]

Perhaps you could say she looked at her disdainfully.

Two things:
1. I don't want to use an adverb.
2. I want to suggest the eyes looked up and down the subject.

 

[Tarheel]

"She gave her a withering look" comes to mind, but that doesn't fulfill all of your requirements.

 

[alpacinou]

I found this:

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/look+up+and+down

But I don't think it connotes humiliation. Sometimes people look up and down someone in a humiliating way.

https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/...judgment-face-always-first-thing-you-look.gif

 

[emsr2d2]

You have to be literal in this case.

"She looked him up and down witheringly/disdainfully."

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Good suggestions above. To complete that sentence, an adverb is almost inevitable.

Other ideas: Laura looked at her:

- contemptfully
- with contempt
- dismissively
- disgustedly
- with disgust
- haughtily