All 6 Uses of
contempt
in
Hard Times
- He really liked Sissy too well to have a contempt for her; otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have fallen upon that conclusion.†
Chpt 1.14
- ...took no pains to hide his contempt for Mr. Bounderby,
Chpt 2.2 *contempt = dislike and disrespect
- 'Oh,' returned Tom, with contemptuous patronage, 'she's a regular girl.†
Chpt 2.3
- Yet it is an indubitable fact, within the cognizance of this history, that five minutes after he had left the house in the self-same hat, the same descendant of the Scadgerses and connexion by matrimony of the Powlers, shook her right-hand mitten at his portrait, made a contemptuous grimace at that work of art, and said 'Serve you right, you Noodle, and I am glad of it.'†
Chpt 2.9
- During the whole term of this recess from the guardianship of the Bank, Mrs. Sparsit was a pattern of consistency; continuing to take such pity on Mr. Bounderby to his face, as is rarely taken on man, and to call his portrait a Noodle to its face, with the greatest acrimony and contempt.†
Chpt 2.10
- Nothing that a Noodle does, can awaken surprise or indignation; the proceedings of a Noodle can only inspire contempt.'†
Chpt 3.9