All 8 Uses of
contempt
in
Main Street
- He was a distinguished bird of prey—swooping thin nose, turtle mouth, thick brows, port-wine cheeks, floss of white hair, contemptuous eyes.†
Chpt 4
- There, we didn't take in even our own till we had contemptuously got used to them.†
Chpt 13
- She was furious at the contemptuousness of his exit.†
Chpt 14
- The four marionettes, awkwardly going through exercises, insignificant in the hot sweep of contemptuous land, were not heroic; their voices did not ring out in the score, but sounded apologetic; and when the game was over they glanced about as though they were waiting to be laughed at.†
Chpt 29
- Carol stared at her, felt contemptuous, ready at last to rebel against the trap, and as the rusty goodwife fished again, "Plannin' some more picnics?" she flung out, "I haven't the slightest idea!†
Chpt 30
- And not one man in town to carry out their pioneer tradition of superb and contemptuous cursing, not one to verify the myth that their "rough chivalry" and "rugged virtues" were more generous than the petty scandal-picking of older lands, not one dramatic frontiersman to thunder, with fantastic and fictional oaths, "What are you hinting at?†
Chpt 32
- He looked through her with a contemptuousness such as she could not have imagined.
Chpt 33 *contemptuousness = lack of respect
- The thing she gained in Washington was not information about office-systems and labor unions but renewed courage, that amiable contempt called poise.†
Chpt 37