All 4 Uses of
contempt
in
This Side of Paradise
- Beatrice O'Hara absorbed the sort of education ... measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about;
Chpt 1.1 *contemptuous = disrespectful of
- He had shown off one day in French class (he was in senior French class) to the utter confusion of Mr. Reardon, whose accent Amory damned contemptuously, and to the delight of the class.†
Chpt 1.1
- So he sat one day in an English lecture and heard "Locksley Hall" quoted and fell into a brown study with contempt for Tennyson and all he stood for—for he took him as a representative of the Victorians.†
Chpt 1.4
- The burly man regarded Amory contemptuously.†
Chpt 2.4