All 5 Uses of
contempt
in
Misery
- She stared at him, that furious black gaze, and must have seen the truth in his face, because after a moment she slung him contemptuously back in the chair.†
Chpt 2
- She looked at it briefly, contemptuously, then began to shake a finger in his face, more of those empty white balloons puffing from her mouth.†
Chpt 2
- She looked at him with sallow, sunken contempt. 'You don't know what pain is.'
Chpt 2 *contempt = disrespect
- She slapped a hand in contempt, shifted her feet, and there was that wooden clunking sound as one of them brushed some of whatever it was she had down there on the floor.†
Chpt 2
- This was called neighboring, she told Paul, managing to invest a pleasant word with unsuspected depths of nuance: suspicion, contempt, bitter amusement.†
Chpt 3