All 33 Uses of
contempt
in
The Idiot
- It was an entirely new and hitherto unknown being who now sat and laughed at him, and informed him to his face that she had never had the faintest feeling for him of any kind, except loathing and contempt—contempt which had followed closely upon her sensations of surprise and bewilderment after her first acquaintance with him.†
Chpt 1.4
- It was an entirely new and hitherto unknown being who now sat and laughed at him, and informed him to his face that she had never had the faintest feeling for him of any kind, except loathing and contempt—contempt which had followed closely upon her sensations of surprise and bewilderment after her first acquaintance with him.†
Chpt 1.4
- There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insatiable contempt—in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in society to keep up.†
Chpt 1.4
- Nastasia Philipovna was quite capable of ruining herself, and even of perpetrating something which would send her to Siberia, for the mere pleasure of injuring a man for whom she had developed so inhuman a sense of loathing and contempt.†
Chpt 1.4
- He could not understand such a state of things, and was obliged to conclude that it was pride, the pride of an injured and imaginative woman, which had gone to such lengths that it preferred to sit and nurse its contempt and hatred in solitude rather than mount to heights of hitherto unattainable splendour.†
Chpt 1.4
- Having remarked how difficult it was for him, of all people, to speak to her of these matters, Totski concluded by saying that he trusted Nastasia Philipovna would not look with contempt upon him if he now expressed his sincere desire to guarantee her future by a gift of seventy-five thousand roubles.†
Chpt 1.4
- She received her wrathfully, unkindly, and with contempt.†
Chpt 1.6
- The women condemned her too, and looked at her contemptuously, just as though she were some loathsome insect.†
Chpt 1.6
- Gania looked at him with ironical contempt the while.†
Chpt 1.7
- Gania looked at him with angry contempt.†
Chpt 1.7
- "My sister again," cried Gania, looking at her with contempt and almost hate.†
Chpt 1.8
- "And what about the maid?" asked Nastasia Philipovna, with undisguised contempt.†
Chpt 1.14
- By nature taciturn, he now merely growled occasionally like a bear, and glared contemptuously upon the "beggar," who, being somewhat of a man of the world, and a diplomatist, tried to insinuate himself into the bear's good graces.†
Chpt 1.15
- But the party led by the athlete, without openly showing their hostile intentions, silently nursed contempt and even hatred for Nastasia Philipovna, and marched into her house as they would have marched into an enemy's fortress.†
Chpt 1.15
- This was something new, for Gania had been wont to look upon Colia as a kind of errand-boy, treating him with contempt, threatening to "pull his ears," and in general driving him almost wild with irritation.†
Chpt 2.1
- "It seems absurd to trust a little pepper-box like you," said Aglaya, as she returned the note, and walked past the "pepper-box" with an expression of great contempt.†
Chpt 2.1
- His face, covered with pimples, was neither thoughtful nor even contemptuous; it wore an expression of complacent satisfaction in demanding his rights and in being an aggrieved party.†
Chpt 2.7
- In a state of terrible excitement she threw back her head, with flaming eyes, casting looks of contempt and defiance upon the whole company, in which she could no longer distinguish friend from foe.†
Chpt 2.9
- But you'll admit what a riddle it must have been for us when that calm, cold, little spitfire, Aglaya—(for she stood up to her mother and answered her questions with inexpressible contempt, and mine still more so, because, like a fool, I thought it my duty to assert myself as head of the family)—when Aglaya stood up of a sudden and informed us that 'that madwoman' (strangely enough, she used exactly the same expression as you did) 'has taken it into her head to marry me to Prince Lef…†
Chpt 3.3
- On such occasions he was apt to evince a supreme contempt for his opponents.†
Chpt 3.4
- This poor feeble boy of eighteen—exhausted by disease—looked for all the world as weak and frail as a leaflet torn from its parent tree and trembling in the breeze; but no sooner had his eye swept over his audience, for the first time during the whole of the last hour, than the most contemptuous, the most haughty expression of repugnance lighted up his face.†
Chpt 3.7
- You were asleep," she said, with contemptuous surprise.†
Chpt 3.8
- He looked with hate and loathing on the poverty and downfall of his family, and treated his mother with haughty contempt, although he knew that his whole future depended on her character and reputation.†
Chpt 4.1
- He lived at Ptitsin's, and openly showed contempt for the latter, though he always listened to his advice, and was sensible enough to ask for it when he wanted it.†
Chpt 4.1
- There was a sensation of bitterness, a sort of mocking contempt, mingled with it.†
Chpt 4.1
- You are a chicken-hearted fellow, Gania!" said Varia, looking at her brother with contempt.†
Chpt 4.1
- "Honour, indeed!" said the latter, with contempt.†
Chpt 4.2
- Gania was silent and merely looked contemptuously at him.
Chpt 4.2 *contemptuously = with dislike and disrespect
- The prince did not snub Lebedeff's curiosity, however, because he felt any contempt for him; but simply because the subject was too delicate to talk about.†
Chpt 4.3
- The dignitary himself had been General Epanchin's protector from his youth up; and the general considered him so majestic a personage that he would have felt a hearty contempt for himself if he had even for one moment allowed himself to pose as the great man's equal, or to think of him—in his fear and reverence-as anything less than an Olympic God!†
Chpt 4.6
- One of these women so despised the other, and so longed to express her contempt for her (perhaps she had only come for that very purpose, as Rogojin said next day), that howsoever fantastical was the other woman, howsoever afflicted her spirit and disturbed her understanding, no preconceived idea of hers could possibly stand up against that deadly feminine contempt of her rival.†
Chpt 4.8
- One of these women so despised the other, and so longed to express her contempt for her (perhaps she had only come for that very purpose, as Rogojin said next day), that howsoever fantastical was the other woman, howsoever afflicted her spirit and disturbed her understanding, no preconceived idea of hers could possibly stand up against that deadly feminine contempt of her rival.†
Chpt 4.8
- Why do you speak of a housemaid so contemptuously?†
Chpt 4.8