All 9 Uses of
contempt
in
All the King's Men
- Then he prodded it again, this time contemptuously, and said, "And the fellow that wrote it didn't know a God-damned thing.†
Chpt 2
- A long time later he showed me that, too, and as I thumbed idly through it, noticing the quotations from Emerson and Macaulay and Benjamin Franklin and Shakespeare copied out in a ragged, boyish hand, he said with that same tone of amiable contempt, "Gee, back in those days I figured those fellows who wrote the books knew all there was.†
Chpt 2
- It wasn't pity and it wasn't contempt.†
Chpt 2
- This: Tiny Duffy became, in a crazy kind of way, the other self of Willie Stark, and all the contempt and insult which Willie Stark was to heap on Tiny Duffy was nothing but what one self of Willie Stark did to the other self because of a blind, inward necessity.†
Chpt 2
- We see the flick of the little leather loop on the open page, a flick brisk, not quite contemptuous, but we cannot make out the page.†
Chpt 4
- Only Gilbert's great wealth and prestige and scarcely concealed humorous contempt for Cass saved Cass from ostracism, or worse.†
Chpt 4
- "His contempt for me is a shield," Cass wrote.
Chpt 4 *contempt = lack of respect
- She was with me as much as before, but she seemed to be wrapped in her own thoughts, and when I caressed her she seemed to submit out of a sense of duty or at the best out of a kindness which wasn't quite contemptuous.†
Chpt 7
- Then I kissed her good-bye, and as I did so I saw the conductor who was beyond her look at his watch and flick it into his pocket with that contemptuous motion a conductor on a crack train has when he is getting ready to wind up the ninety-second stop at a hick town.†
Chpt 10