All 15 Uses of
contempt
in
The House of Mirth
- Already she felt within her a stealing allegiance to their standards, an acceptance of their limitations, a disbelief in the things they did not believe in, a contemptuous pity for the people who were not able to live as they lived.†
Chpt 1.4
- She sat talking in low murmurs with Selden, and turning a contemptuous and denuded shoulder toward her host, who, far from resenting his exclusion, plunged into the excesses of the MENU with the joyous irresponsibility of a free man.†
Chpt 1.5
- But now it woke only a motion of indignant contempt.†
Chpt 1.12
- This view of the Gryce incident chimed too well with Selden's mood not to be instantly adopted by him, with a flash of retrospective contempt for what had once seemed the obvious solution.†
Chpt 1.14
- How then would he use his power when her expression of contempt had dispelled his one motive for restraint?†
Chpt 1.15
- "PEAS?" said Mr. Bry contemptuously.†
Chpt 2.1
- It took but a brief plunge down the steep white road to the station to land him safely in the afternoon express for Nice; and not till he was installed in the corner of an empty carriage, did he exclaim to himself, with a reaction of self-contempt: "What the deuce am I running away from?"†
Chpt 2.1
- Her sense of being involved in the crash, instead of merely witnessing it from the road, was intensified by the way in which Dorset, through his furies of denunciation and wild reactions of self-contempt, made her feel the need he had of her, the place she had taken in his life.†
Chpt 2.2
- The words rang out on a note of contempt—was it possibly of contempt for himself?†
Chpt 2.3
- The words rang out on a note of contempt—was it possibly of contempt for himself?†
Chpt 2.3
- —was hard enough to the lingering pride in her; but she realized, with a pang of self-contempt, that to be excluded from it would, after all, be harder still.†
Chpt 2.5
- the sudden glimpse into his mocked and broken life disarmed her contempt for his weakness.
Chpt 2.6 *contempt = disrespect
- She did indeed leave cards in plenty; she kept herself, with a smiling and valiant persistence, well in the eye of her world; nor did she suffer any of those gross rebuffs which sometimes produce a wholesome reaction of contempt in their victim.†
Chpt 2.8
- She had never before suspected the mixture of insatiable curiosity and contemptuous freedom with which she and her kind were discussed in this underworld of toilers who lived on their vanity and self-indulgence.†
Chpt 2.10
- As she led the way westward past a long line of areas which, through the distortion of their paintless rails, revealed with increasing candour the DISJECTA MEMBRA of bygone dinners, Lily felt that Rosedale was taking contemptuous note of the neighbourhood; and before the doorstep at which she finally paused he looked up with an air of incredulous disgust.†
Chpt 2.10