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feels contempt towards her
Definition
lack of respect for someone or something thought inferior — often accompanied by a feeling of dislike or disgust
- Tom had a profound contempt for this nonsense of Maggie's,1.10 — Book 1 Chapter 10 — Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected (13% in)
contempt = disrespect and dislike
- Tom paused, and at last turned away contemptuously, saying, "But the lion isn't coming.1.5 — Book 1 Chapter 5 — Tom Comes Home (26% in)
- Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.1.12 — Book 1 Chapter 12 — Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home (29% in)
- "Not at all!" said Mr. Poulter, contemptuously.2.4 — Book 2 Chapter 4 — "The Young Idea" (59% in)
- "What! the humpbacked lad?" said Mr. Poulter, contemptuously; "what's the use of his looking on?"2.4 — Book 2 Chapter 4 — "The Young Idea" (67% in)
There are no more uses of "contempt" flagged with this meaning in The Mill on the Floss.
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- "I should be very sorry to understand your feelings," said Tom, with scorching contempt.5.5 — Book 5 Chapter 5 — The Cloven Tree (71% in)
- Yap, feeling the withering influence of this scorn, tucked his tail in and shrank close to Tom's leg, who felt a little hurt for him, but had not the superhuman courage to seem behindhand with Bob in contempt for a dog who made so poor a figure.1.6 — Book 1 Chapter 6 — The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming (64% in)
- —don't step where the cows have been!" he added, pointing to a peninsula of dry grass, with trodden mud on each side of it; for Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.1.10 — Book 1 Chapter 10 — Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected (40% in)
- She had once mentioned her views on this point to Tom and suggested that he should stain his face brown, and they should run away together; but Tom rejected the scheme with contempt, observing that gypsies were thieves, and hardly got anything to eat and had nothing to drive but a donkey.1.11 — Book 1 Chapter 11 — Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow (4% in)
- There had been singing under the windows after midnight,—supernatural singing, Maggie always felt, in spite of Tom's contemptuous insistence that the singers were old Patch, the parish clerk, and the rest of the church choir; she trembled with awe when their carolling broke in upon her dreams, and the image of men in fustian clothes was always thrust away by the vision of angels resting on the parted cloud.2.2 — Book 2 Chapter 2 — The Christmas Holidays (14% in)
- No; Dix, Mr. Tulliver considered, had been as good as nowhere in point of law; and in the intensity of his indignation against Pivart, his contempt for a baffled adversary like Dix began to wear the air of a friendly attachment.2.2 — Book 2 Chapter 2 — The Christmas Holidays (31% in)
- Philip was often peevish and contemptuous; and Tom's more specific and kindly impressions gradually melted into the old background of suspicion and dislike toward him as a queer fellow, a humpback, and the son of a rogue.2.6 — Book 2 Chapter 6 — A Love-Scene (96% in)
- He knew there were people in St. Ogg's who made a show without money to support it, and he had always heard such people spoken of by his own friends with contempt and reprobation.2.7 — Book 2 Chapter 7 — The Golden Gates Are Passed (59% in)
- Perhaps his father might have helped bringing them all down in the world, and making people talk of them with contempt, but no one should talk long of Tom Tulliver with contempt.3.2 — Book 3 Chapter 2 — Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods (74% in)
- Perhaps his father might have helped bringing them all down in the world, and making people talk of them with contempt, but no one should talk long of Tom Tulliver with contempt.3.2 — Book 3 Chapter 2 — Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods (75% in)
- But this was Mr. Deane's morning at the band, a clerk told him, and with some contempt for his ignorance; Mr. Deane was not to be found in River Street on a Thursday morning.3.5 — Book 3 Chapter 5 — Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster (20% in)
- You may think that I am unable to keep my resolutions; but at least you ought not to treat me with hard contempt on the ground of faults that I have not committed yet.6.4 — Book 6 Chapter 4 — Brother and Sister (86% in)
There are no more uses of "contempt" in The Mill on the Floss.
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