All 17 Uses of
contempt
in
Lord Jim
- His station was in the fore-top, and often from there he looked down, with the contempt of a man destined to shine in the midst of dangers, at the peaceful multitude of roofs cut in two by the brown tide of the stream, while scattered on the outskirts of the surrounding plain the factory chimneys rose perpendicular against a grimy sky, each slender like a pencil, and belching out smoke like a volcano.†
Chpt 1
- He scrutinised my face with wild and withering contempt.†
Chpt 5
- No doubt, to have all this forced upon you was exasperating enough; but when I reflected that I was associated in these fatal disadvantages with twelve hundred millions of other more or less human beings, I found I could bear my share of his good-natured and contemptuous pity for the sake of something indefinite and attractive in the man.†
Chpt 6
- 'No wonder Jim's case bored him, and while I thought with something akin to fear of the immensity of his contempt for the young man under examination, he was probably holding silent inquiry into his own case.†
Chpt 6
- The demeanour of one suggested gloomy impudence and of the other a contemptuous boredom; yet one attitude might not have been truer than the other, and I was aware that one was not true.†
Chpt 6
- 'Apparently he shared Brierly's contemptuous opinion of these proceedings ordained by law.†
Chpt 7
- My obtuseness provoked him into a contemptuous "Pshaw!"†
Chpt 8
- Chester looked at me with infinite contempt.
Chpt 14 *contempt = lack of respect and dislike
- That is why he seemed to love the land and the people with a sort of fierce egoism, with a contemptuous tenderness.'†
Chpt 24
- "There's nobody here!" yelled Jim contemptuously, but his impulse to burst into a resentful exasperated laugh died without a sound: he had perceived in the very act of turning away that he was exchanging glances with a pair of eyes in the heap of mats.†
Chpt 31
- Even Sherif Ali himself, as it seems certain now, had nothing but contempt for the white man.†
Chpt 33
- Without raising her voice, she threw into it an infinity of scathing contempt, bitterness, and despair.†
Chpt 33
- It was trying; but the contempt, the unreasoned contempt, the man's appearance provoked, made it easier to bear.†
Chpt 34
- It was trying; but the contempt, the unreasoned contempt, the man's appearance provoked, made it easier to bear.†
Chpt 34
- I laughed contemptuously, and, turning on my heel, began to walk on again.†
Chpt 34
- A contempt, a weariness, the desire of life, the wish to try for one more chance—for some other grave—struggled in his breast.†
Chpt 41
- 'It was then that Brown took his revenge upon the world which, after twenty years of contemptuous and reckless bullying, refused him the tribute of a common robber's success.†
Chpt 44