All 12 Uses of
contempt
in
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene by Greene
- 'Nothing to report,' the lieutenant said with contempt.†
Chpt 1.2
- He had a sort of contempt for the lower clergy, and right up to the last he was explaining his rank.†
Chpt 1.2
- When he had gone some way they could see him pause and spit; he had not been discourteous, he had waited till he supposed that they no longer watched him before he got rid of his hatred and contempt for a different way of life, for ease, safety, toleration, and complacency.†
Chpt 1.3
- Contempt and safety waited for him down by the quay: he wanted to get away.†
Chpt 1.4
- She looked him up and down with a kind of contempt.†
Chpt 2.1
- The child stood there, watching him with acuteness and contempt.†
Chpt 2.1
- The voice said with contempt, "You believers are all the same."
Chpt 2.3 *contempt = lack of respect
- The day before he had asked apprehensively, 'Are there no snakes?' and Mr Lehr had grunted contemptuously that if there were any snakes they'd pretty soon get out of the way.†
Chpt 3.1
- They had probably let him have far too much beer in the capital, and the priest thought, with an odd touch of contemptuous affection, of how much had happened to them both since that first encounter in a village of which he didn't even know the name - the half-caste lying there in the hot noonday rocking his hammock with one naked yellow foot.†
Chpt 3.2
- He said with contempt, 'So you have a child?'†
Chpt 3.3
- The lieutenant said contemptuously, 'A game for gamblers-or children.'†
Chpt 3.3
- Oh, Padre Jose,' the lieutenant said with contempt, 'he's no good for you.†
Chpt 3.3