All 12 Uses of
contempt
in
Great Expectations
- Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.†
Chpt 8
- This gave me power to keep them back and to look at her: so, she gave a contemptuous toss—but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure that I was so wounded— and left me.†
Chpt 8
- She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me.†
Chpt 8
- ...they all looked at me with the utmost contempt...
Chpt 11 *contempt = lack of respect
- There was an expression of contempt on his face, and he bit the side of a great forefinger as he watched the group of faces.†
Chpt 18
- Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt; but they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon themselves.†
Chpt 25
- I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father, for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt.†
Chpt 27
- But I never thought there was anything low and small in my keeping away from Joe, because I knew she would be contemptuous of him.†
Chpt 29
- A spirit of contempt for the fawners and plotters.†
Chpt 33
- The bill paid, and the waiter remembered, and the ostler not forgotten, and the chambermaid taken into consideration,—in a word, the whole house bribed into a state of contempt and animosity, and Estella's purse much lightened,—we got into our post-coach and drove away.†
Chpt 33
- "It is quite true," she replied, referring to him with the indifference of utter contempt.†
Chpt 44
- "A Custum 'Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons," said the Jack, repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt, "when they comes betwixt him and his own light.†
Chpt 54