All 5 Uses of
contempt
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- I have the greatest contempt for optimism.
Chpt 6 *contempt = disrespect and dislike
- You are talking about things of which you know nothing," said Dorian Gray, biting his lip, and with a note of infinite contempt in his voice.†
Chpt 12
- There was a curl of contempt in his lips.†
Chpt 12
- There was a look of contempt in the steady searching gaze that he turned on Dorian.†
Chpt 14
- Besides, he had convinced himself that he had been the victim of a terror-stricken imagination, and looked back now on his fears with something of pity and not a little of contempt.†
Chpt 18