All 14 Uses of
contempt
in
Sons and Lovers
- Gertrude herself was rather contemptuous of dancing; she had not the slightest inclination towards that accomplishment, and had never learned even a Roger de Coverley.†
Chpt 1.1
- "P-h!" she went quickly, in contempt.†
Chpt 1.2
- She sat trembling slightly, but her heart brimming with contempt.†
Chpt 1.2
- Then, sometimes, the father would seem to feel the contemptuous hatred of his children.†
Chpt 1.6
- Then beneath was the yearning for the soul-intimacy to which they could not attain because they were too dumb, and every approach to close connection was blocked by their clumsy contempt of other people.†
Chpt 2.7
- Besides"—her voice suddenly flashed into anger and contempt—"it is disgusting—bits of lads and girls courting."†
Chpt 2.7
- She carried her head back, as if she had drawn away in contempt, perhaps from men also.†
Chpt 2.8
- Clara, walking with a kind of sulky abandon, watched it half-fascinated, half-contemptuous.†
Chpt 2.9
- "Pah!" he said, contemptuous on his side now.†
Chpt 2.10
- "She is wanting somebody to take her hands—for all she is so contemptuous of us," he said to himself.†
Chpt 2.10
- ...he treated her distantly, with a touch of contempt.
Chpt 2.12 *contempt = dislike (and perhaps disrespect)
- "Oh, him in a bob-tailed evening suit, on the lardy-da!" sneered Dawes, jerking his head contemptuously at Paul.†
Chpt 2.13
- The smith looked down contemptuously on his employer.†
Chpt 2.13
- And she was cold to him for some time—she hated him; and while she was cold and contemptuous, he was uneasy till she had forgiven him again.†
Chpt 2.13