All 13 Uses of
contempt
in
Bleak House
- A sallow prisoner has come up, in custody, for the halfdozenth time to make a personal application "to purge himself of his contempt," which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is not at all likely ever to do.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind.
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)contempt = lack of respect
- "Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it without thinking. Thinking!" (with profound contempt).
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- I have been in prison for contempt of court.
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2) *contempt = the crime of willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority
- At this period of the entertainment, Guster, who has never recovered her first failure, but has neglected no possible or impossible means of bringing the establishment and herself into contempt—among which may be briefly enumerated her unexpectedly performing clashing military music on Mr. Chadband's head with plates, and afterwards crowning that gentleman with muffins—at which period of the entertainment, Guster whispers Mr. Snagsby that he is wanted.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- …Lord Chancellor and the whole array of practitioners under him looking at one another and at the spectators as if nobody had ever heard that all over England the name in which they were assembled was a bitter jest, was held in universal horror, contempt, and indignation, was known for something so flagrant and bad that little short of a miracle could bring any good out of it to any one—this was so curious and selfcontradictory to me, who had no experience of it, that it was at first…†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- Haven't I seen you in the Fleet over and over again for contempt?†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- Unless, indeed, it be the sportive Judy, who is found to be silent when the startled visitors look round, but whose chin has received a recent toss, expressive of derision and contempt.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- The little gauzy child, having whisked her sandals into the reticule and put on a trodden-down pair of shoes, shook her head into the dowdy bonnet at one shake, and answering my inquiry whether she liked dancing by replying, "Not with boys," tied it across her chin, and went home contemptuous.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 1)
- It is Mr. Tulkinghorn's case at present, though Mademoiselle Hortense, with her eyes almost shut up (but still looking out sideways), is only smiling contemptuously and shaking her head.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- This she would always do with a serene contempt for our limited sphere of action, not to be disguised.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can "offer" twenty pence.
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1) *contemptuously = with disrespect