All 50 Uses of
contempt
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Immediately after the elopement Adelaida Ivanovna discerned in a flash that she had no feeling for her husband but contempt.†
Chpt 1
- He would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the contempt and loathing he aroused by his persistent and shameless importunity.†
Chpt 1
- Hearing all about Adelaida Ivanovna, whom he, of course, remembered, and in whom he had at one time been interested, and learning of the existence of Mitya, he intervened, in spite of all his youthful indignation and contempt for Fyodor Pavlovitch.†
Chpt 1
- It must be noted that he did not even attempt to communicate with his father, perhaps from pride, from contempt for him, or perhaps from his cool common sense, which told him that from such a father he would get no real assistance.†
Chpt 1
- Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation.†
Chpt 1
- Alyosha wondered, too, whether there was not some contempt on the part of the learned atheist for him—a foolish novice.†
Chpt 1
- He could not take offense at this contempt, if it existed; yet, with an uneasy embarrassment which he did not himself understand, he waited for his brother to come nearer to him.†
Chpt 1
- Miuesov was on the point of shouting, but he suddenly checked himself, and said with contempt, "You defile everything you touch."†
Chpt 2
- Dmitri frowned painfully, and looked with unutterable contempt at his father.†
Chpt 2
- Contempt's no help here, brother, even if he did despise Grushenka.†
Chpt 2
- I never dreamed that you of all people had such contempt for her!†
Chpt 2
- Ivan shrugged his shoulders contemptuously, and turning away stared at the road.†
Chpt 2
- Moreover, Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and an invariable kindness, a perfectly natural unaffected devotion to the old man who deserved it so little.†
Chpt 3
- But he seemed to have as much contempt for the female sex as for men; he was discreet, almost unapproachable, with them.†
Chpt 3
- "Soup-maker!" muttered Grigory contemptuously.†
Chpt 3
- They're contemptuous….†
Chpt 3
- Was she not?" said Ivan, with uncontrolled anger and contempt.†
Chpt 3
- Some idiot comes in, and you put us to shame!" cried the girl by the window, suddenly turning to her father with a disdainful and contemptuous air.†
Chpt 4
- "You are persuading me to take it, saying that it's a sister sends it, but inwardly, in your heart won't you feel contempt for me if I take it, eh?"†
Chpt 4
- Isn't there in all our analysis—I mean your analysis …. no, better call it ours—aren't we showing contempt for him, for that poor man—in analyzing his soul like this, as it were, from above, eh?†
Chpt 5
- "No, Lise, it's not contempt," Alyosha answered, as though he had prepared himself for the question.†
Chpt 5
- How can it be contempt when we are all like him, when we are all just the same as he is?†
Chpt 5
- No, Lise, I have no contempt for him.†
Chpt 5
- "Yes, Lise, your question just now: whether we weren't showing contempt for that poor man by dissecting his soul—that was the question of a sufferer….†
Chpt 5
- Ah, how contemptuous!†
Chpt 5
- "You are, I see, a man of great strength of character," he said; "as you have dared to serve the truth, even when by doing so you risked incurring the contempt of all."†
Chpt 6
- In the cultivated world the word is nowadays pronounced by some people with a jeer, and by others it is used as a term of abuse, and this contempt for the monk is growing.†
Chpt 6
- He had, besides, noticed at that moment, he remembered afterwards, a certain involuntary proud contempt for this missive from Siberia on Grushenka's face.†
Chpt 8
- The forester still treated the matter contemptuously, and when he opened the window said grumpily: "It'll be all right, now."†
Chpt 8
- The peasant was silently and slyly watching him, with insulting composure, and even a sort of contemptuous condescension, so Mitya fancied.†
Chpt 8
- "And to think, only to think that a man's life should be ruined for the sake of that paltry three thousand!" he cried, contemptuously.†
Chpt 8
- The other, younger Pole, who was staring insolently and defiantly at the company and listening to the conversation with silent contempt, still only impressed Mitya by his great height, which was in striking contrast to the Pole on the sofa.†
Chpt 8
- "You can reckon on that," the tall Pole snapped contemptuously.†
Chpt 8
- "Ah, he can't sit still," said Grushenka, looking at him contemptuously.†
Chpt 8
- But the soldier is rejected with contempt, in two indecent lines, sung with absolute frankness and producing a furore in the audience.†
Chpt 8
- "So now you can build up your tower," Mitya broke off, and again turned away from them contemptuously.†
Chpt 9
- It's not for you I tell it," he added contemptuously.†
Chpt 9
- From pride and contempt he submitted without a word.†
Chpt 9
- That rotten prosecutor has gone, too, contemptuous no doubt, it disgusts him to see me naked!†
Chpt 9
- Yes, do you know that she might have given me that money, yes, and she would have given it, too; she'd have been certain to give it, to be revenged on me, she'd have given it to satisfy her vengeance, to show her contempt for me, for hers is an infernal nature, too, and she's a woman of great wrath.†
Chpt 9
- It must be noted that Kolya understood and divined what was in Dardanelov's heart and, of course, despised him profoundly for his "feelings"; he had in the past been so tactless as to show this contempt before his mother, hinting vaguely that he knew what Dardanelov was after.†
Chpt 10
- With this idea he put on his wadded winter overcoat with its catskin fur collar, slung his satchel round his shoulder, and, regardless of his mother's constantly reiterated entreaties that he would always put on goloshes in such cold weather, he looked at them contemptuously as he crossed the hall and went out with only his boots on.†
Chpt 10
- And I began to treat him with contempt; whenever I met him I turned away or smiled sarcastically.†
Chpt 10
- I simply looked at him contemptuously, as though to say, 'This is how you repay all my kindness!†
Chpt 10
- Though the boy tried not to show how he disliked it, he saw with an aching heart that his father was an object of contempt, and he was continually haunted by the memory of the "wisp of tow" and that "terrible day."†
Chpt 10
- If Alyosha had said a word it would have stopped him, but Alyosha was silent and "it might be the silence of contempt," and that finally irritated Kolya.†
Chpt 10
- But in my soul I have a profound contempt for the classics and all that fraud….†
Chpt 10
- Tell me, Karamazov, have you an awful contempt for me?†
Chpt 10
- I have a contempt for you?†
Chpt 10
- That was just when I was fancying you had a great contempt for me for being in such a hurry to show off, and for a moment I quite hated you for it, and began talking like a fool.†
Chpt 10