All 11 Uses of
contempt
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'Well, don't cry,' replied Catherine, contemptuously; 'you're not killed.†
Chpt 7
- I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine; she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to…†
Chpt 8
- 'Have you been listening at the door, Edgar?' asked the mistress, in a tone particularly calculated to provoke her husband, implying both carelessness and contempt of his irritation.†
Chpt 11
- I getten summut else to do,' he answered, and continued his work; moving his lantern jaws meanwhile, and surveying my dress and countenance (the former a great deal too fine, but the latter, I'm sure, as sad as he could desire) with sovereign contempt.†
Chpt 13
- The father launched towards his son a glance of bitter contempt.
Chpt 21 *contempt = disrespect
- 'The fool stared, with a grin hovering about his lips, and a scowl gathering over his eyes, as if uncertain whether he might not join in my mirth: whether it were not pleasant familiarity, or what it really was, contempt.†
Chpt 24
- Hate my father, and spare me for contempt.'†
Chpt 27
- You needn't bespeak contempt, Linton: anybody will have it spontaneously at your service.†
Chpt 27
- 'You cannot deny that you entered my house of your own accord, in contempt of his injunctions to the contrary.†
Chpt 27
- Catherine evinced a child's annoyance at this neglect; repaid it with contempt, and thus enlisted my informant among her enemies, as securely as if she had done her some great wrong.†
Chpt 30
- 'No, I'm not hungry,' he answered, averting his head, and speaking rather contemptuously, as if he guessed I was trying to divine the occasion of his good humour.†
Chpt 34