All 7 Uses of
contempt
in
Mrs. Warren's Profession
- CROFTS [contemptuously] Yah!†
Act 2 *
- VIVIE [with intense contempt for them] If I thought that I was like that—that I was going to be a waster, shifting along from one meal to another with no purpose, and no character, and no grit in me, I'd open an artery and bleed to death without one moment's hesitation.†
Act 2
- [He halts in his prowling; and the two look at one another, she steadfastly, with a sort of awe behind her contemptuous disgust: he stealthily, with a carnal gleam in his eye and a loose grin.†
Act 2
- VIVIE [contemptuously] Nonsense.†
Act 2
- VIVIE [with scarcely veiled contempt for this effort at conversation] Very.†
Act 3
- She replies with contemptuous self-possession.†
Act 3
- [Vivie turns away contemptuously.†
Act 4