All 6 Uses of
contempt
in
Major Barbara
- BILL [contemptuously, but backing a little] Wot good are you, you old palsy mug?†
Act 2 *
- SHIRLEY [with blighting contempt] Yes: you like an old man to hit, don't you, when you've finished with the women.†
Act 2
- [He sits down again with a shrug of contempt for the mob].†
Act 2
- BILL [contemptuously] Not likely.†
Act 2
- A man can't make cannons any the better for being his own cousin instead of his proper self [she sits down in the deck chair with a bounce that expresses her downright contempt for their casuistry.†
Act 3
- UNDERSHAFT [with biting contempt] You lust for personal righteousness, for self-approval, for what you call a good conscience, for what Barbara calls salvation, for what I call patronizing people who are not so lucky as yourself.†
Act 3