All 13 Uses of
contempt
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Elizabeth was convinced that they held her in contempt for it.
Chpt 7 *contempt = disrespect
- You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.†
Chpt 10
- Mr. Collins, however, was not discouraged from speaking again, and Mr. Darcy's contempt seemed abundantly increasing with the length of his second speech, and at the end of it he only made him a slight bow, and moved another way.†
Chpt 18
- The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.†
Chpt 18
- That his two sisters and Mr. Darcy, however, should have such an opportunity of ridiculing her relations, was bad enough, and she could not determine whether the silent contempt of the gentleman, or the insolent smiles of the ladies, were more intolerable.†
Chpt 18
- The idea of his returning no more Elizabeth treated with the utmost contempt.†
Chpt 21
- That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted no more than she had ever done; and much as she had always been disposed to like him, she could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice of his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination.†
Chpt 24
- "His misfortunes!" repeated Darcy contemptuously; "yes, his misfortunes have been great indeed."†
Chpt 34
- You have done all this! and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortune with contempt and ridicule.†
Chpt 34
- It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had thus been self-attracted by the rest of her family; and as she considered that Jane's disappointment had in fact been the work of her nearest relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.†
Chpt 36
- Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.†
Chpt 41
- She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.†
Chpt 42
- You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.†
Chpt 56