All 11 Uses of
contempt
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- My mistress had been accusing me of an offence, of which I assured her I was perfectly innocent; but I saw, by the contemptuous curl of her lip, that she believed I was telling a lie.†
Chpt 4
- I tried to treat them with indifference or contempt.†
Chpt 5
- Sometimes I so openly expressed my contempt for him that he would become violently enraged, and I wondered why he did not strike me.†
Chpt 6
- Southern gentlemen indulge in the most contemptuous expressions about the Yankees, while they, on their part, consent to do the vilest work for them, such as the ferocious bloodhounds and the despised negro-hunters are employed to do at home.†
Chpt 8
- But when he spoke contemptuously of the lover who had always treated me honorably; when I remembered that but for him I might have been a virtuous, free, and happy wife, I lost my patience.†
Chpt 11
- I listened with silent contempt when he talked about my having forfeited his good opinion; but I shed bitter tears that I was no longer worthy of being respected by the good and pure.†
Chpt 14
- It might give some heartless people a pretext for treating you with contempt.†
Chpt 31
- That word contempt burned me like coals of fire.†
Chpt 31
- I intend to be a good mother, and to live in such a manner that people cannot treat me with contempt.
Chpt 31 *contempt = a lack of respect
- The contemptuous manner in which the communion had been administered to colored people, in my native place; the church membership of Dr. Flint, and others like him; and the buying and selling of slaves, by professed ministers of the gospel, had given me a prejudice against the Episcopal church.†
Chpt 37
- I heard the bells ringing for afternoon service, and, with contemptuous sarcasm, I said, "Will the preachers take for their text, 'Proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of prison doors to them that are bound'? or will they preach from the text, 'Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you'?"†
Chpt 41