All 12 Uses of
contempt
in
Fathers and Sons
- To the gin-shop,' he added contemptuously, turning slightly towards the coachman, as though he would appeal to him.†
Chpt 3 *
- 'The art of making money or of advertising pills!' cried Bazarov, with a contemptuous laugh.†
Chpt 6
- On the other hand Pavel Petrovitch had grown to detest Bazarov with all the strength of his soul; he regarded him as stuck-up, impudent, cynical, and vulgar; he suspected that Bazarov had no respect for him, that he had all but a contempt for him—him, Pavel Kirsanov!†
Chpt 10
- 'Well, suppose he deserves contempt.†
Chpt 10
- The possibility of feeling and expressing contempt was the most agreeable sensation to Sitnikov; he used to attack women in especial, never suspecting that it was to be his fate a few months later to be cringing before his wife merely because she had been born a princess Durdoleosov.†
Chpt 13
- Arkady, as we are aware, danced badly, while Bazarov did not dance at all; they both took up their position in a corner; Sitnikov joined himself on to them, with an expression of contemptuous scorn on his face, and giving vent to spiteful comments, he looked insolently about him, and seemed to be really enjoying himself.†
Chpt 14
- In his conversations with Anna Sergyevna he expressed more strongly than ever his calm contempt for everything idealistic; but when he was alone, with indignation he recognised idealism in himself.†
Chpt 17
- Madame Odintsov looked at him twice, not stealthily, but straight in the face, which was bilious and forbidding, with downcast eyes, and contemptuous determination stamped on every feature, and thought: 'No …. no …. no.' ….†
Chpt 19
- 'Gin-selling?' asked Arkady, rather too contemptuously.†
Chpt 19
- Bazarov remembered another recent scene, and he felt both shame and contemptuous annoyance.†
Chpt 23
- After listening to such a reply one day, Bazarov shrugged his shoulders contemptuously and turned away, while the peasant sauntered slowly homewards.†
Chpt 27
- Bazarov, shrugging his shoulders contemptuously, Bazarov, who knew how to talk to peasants (as he had boasted in his dispute with Pavel Petrovitch), did not in his self-confidence even suspect that in their eyes he was all the while something of the nature of a buffooning clown.†
Chpt 27