All 5 Uses of
contempt
in
Heart of Darkness
- As we left the miserable little wharf, he tossed his head contemptuously at the shore.†
Chpt 1
- said in a tone of scathing contempt
Chpt 3 *contempt = disrespect and dislike
- And it is not my own extremity I remember best—a vision of grayness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things—even of this pain itself.†
Chpt 3
- I like to think my summing-up would not have been a word of careless contempt.†
Chpt 3
- He took it up eagerly, but ended by sniffing at it with an air of contempt.†
Chpt 3