All 32 Uses of
contempt
in
Of Human Bondage
- He felt that they looked at him with contempt.†
Chpt 11-12
- His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity.†
Chpt 17-18
- At school there had been two or three girls of more boldness than modesty whom some of the boys knew; and desperate stories, due in all probability to the masculine imagination, were told of intrigues with them; but Philip had always concealed under a lofty contempt the terror with which they filled him.†
Chpt 21-22
- Wharton gave a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders.†
Chpt 23-24
- Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish ease; or perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his life in the pursuit of that which was not worth the finding.†
Chpt 25-26
- He cast down the fetish of exercise, damning with the contemptuous word pot-hunters all those who devoted themselves to its various forms; and Philip did not realise that he was merely putting up in its stead the other fetish of culture.†
Chpt 25-26
- Once he caught Cacilie's eye, and he thought she looked at him with hatred and contempt.†
Chpt 29-30
- Only Herr Sung remained unaffected; he was no less smiling, affable, and polite than he had been before: one could not tell whether his manner was a triumph of civilisation or an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for the vanquished West.†
Chpt 29-30
- He had a feeling that she must think it odd of him to make no sign: perhaps it was only his fancy, but once or twice in the last day or two he had imagined that there was a suspicion of contempt in her eyes.†
Chpt 33-34
- At Blackstable they had always looked upon brewing with civil contempt, the Vicar made little jokes about the beerage, and it was a surprising experience for Philip to discover that Watson was such an important and magnificent fellow.†
Chpt 35-36
- Watson looked at him with surprise and with a slightly contemptuous amusement.†
Chpt 37-38
- They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he practised an art, and with awe because he used a medium in which themselves felt ill-at-ease.†
Chpt 41-42
- Nor did he conceal his contempt for the students whose work he examined.†
Chpt 43-44
- "That's all literature,' she said, a little contemptuously.†
Chpt 43-44
- They prided themselves on being alone in appreciating his genius; and though, with the contempt of youth for the follies of middle-age, they patronised him among themselves, they did not fail to look upon it as a feather in their caps if he had chosen a time when only one was there to be particularly wonderful.†
Chpt 45-46
- …had nothing ready, and he was very scornful of the two heads that Lawson sent; they were obviously the work of a student, straightforward portraits of models, but they had a certain force; Clutton, aiming at perfection, had no patience with efforts which betrayed hesitancy, and with a shrug of the shoulders told Lawson it was an impertinence to exhibit stuff which should never have been allowed out of his studio; he was not less contemptuous when the two heads were accepted.†
Chpt 47-48
- On the other hand, in mind he did not seem to have changed at all, and the culture which had impressed Philip at eighteen aroused somewhat the contempt of Philip at twenty-one.†
Chpt 47-48
- Miss Chalice, who had a clever dexterity which impressed Lawson notwithstanding his contempt for feminine art, started a picture in which she tried to circumvent the commonplace by leaving out the tops of the trees; and Lawson had the brilliant idea of putting in his foreground a large blue advertisement of chocolat Menier in order to emphasise his abhorrence of the chocolate box.†
Chpt 47-48
- He thought he detected in her a touch of contempt for him, because he had not had the sense to see that she was there, in his way, and in Lawson a suspicion of superiority.†
Chpt 47-48
- Lawson dreaded the criticism he asked for and had discounted the blame he thought he might get by affecting a contempt for any opinion of Clutton's; but Philip knew there was nothing which would give him more pleasure than Clutton's praise.†
Chpt 47-48
- "Lawson's all right,' he said contemptuously, "he'll go back to England, become a fashionable portrait painter, earn ten thousand a year and be an A. R. A. before he's forty.†
Chpt 49-50
- I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money.†
Chpt 51-52
- He is the independent traveller, who uses Cook's tickets because they save trouble, but looks with good-humoured contempt on the personally conducted parties.†
Chpt 53-54
- It would be a great comfort to express the immensity of his contempt.†
Chpt 55-56
- It cost twenty pounds, which was much more than he could afford, but it was showy and vulgar: he knew she would be aware exactly how much it cost; he got a melancholy satisfaction in choosing a gift which would give her pleasure and at the same time indicate for himself the contempt he had for her.†
Chpt 63-64
- You brought out a book which had cost you years of thought and labour; it was given two or three contemptuous lines among a batch of similar volumes, twenty or thirty copies were sold, and the rest of the edition was pulped.†
Chpt 83-84
- He could not help flushing when he remembered her final jibe; but he shrugged his shoulders contemptuously.†
Chpt 97-98
- He resented Hayward's contempt for action and success.†
Chpt 97-98
- They did not envy their betters, for the life was too different, and they had an ideal of ease which made the existence of the middle-classes seem formal and stiff; moreover, they had a certain contempt for them because they were soft and did not work with their hands.†
Chpt 113-114
- They bore the curate with contemptuous indifference, but the district visitor excited their bitter hatred.†
Chpt 113-114
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.†
Chpt 115-116
- The ridicule and the contempt which had so often been heaped upon him...
Chpt 121-122 *contempt = lack of respect