All 5 Uses of
contempt
in
My Antonia
- His eyes followed Peter about the room with a contemptuous, unfriendly expression.†
Book 1
- Mrs. Shimerda and Antonia always deferred to him, though he was often surly with them and contemptuous toward his father.†
Book 1
- I used to glare at young Lovett from a distance and only wished I had some way of showing my contempt for him.†
Book 2
- I looked with contempt at the dark, silent little houses about me as I walked home, and thought of the stupid young men who were asleep in some of them.
Book 2 *contempt = dislike and disrespect
- I remembered her tripping briskly about the dining-room on her high heels, carrying a big trayful of dishes, glancing rather pertly at the spruce travelling men, and contemptuously at the scrubby ones--who were so afraid of her that they didn't dare to ask for two kinds of pie.†
Book 4