All 6 Uses of
contempt
in
The Age of Innocence
- No, it was worse a thousand times if, judging Beaufort, and probably despising him, she was yet drawn to him by all that gave him an advantage over the other men about her: his habit of two continents and two societies, his familiar association with artists and actors and people generally in the world's eye, and his careless contempt for local prejudices.†
Chpt 15
- His host's contemptuous tribute to May's "niceness" was just what a husband should have wished to hear said of his wife.†
Chpt 21
- Archer broke out contemptuously.†
Chpt 26 *
- But for the first time she became absorbed in her own symptoms, and began to take a sentimental interest in certain members of her family to whom she had hitherto been contemptuously indifferent.†
Chpt 28
- But in Archer's little world no one laughed at a wife deceived, and a certain measure of contempt was attached to men who continued their philandering after marriage.†
Chpt 31
- "She'll come!" he said to himself, almost contemptuously.†
Chpt 31