All 17 Uses of
contempt
in
The Lords of Discipline
- Mark stared fiercely over our heads, his eyes full of contempt and challenge.†
Chpt 1.10
- He eyed us with contempt for several moments, then screamed out, "Sit down, dumbheads."†
Chpt 2.16
- My arms began to spasm and he leaned far over to shout contemptuously in my ear, "Pussy, pussy, pussy, pussy."†
Chpt 2.16
- These were the two pillars of authority upon which my life had been built, and I had learned their rituals well—their worship of order and tradition, their strict codes, their punishment of anarchy, and contempt for the man or woman who stood alone.†
Chpt 2.17
- I heard his name often during plebe week, echoing along the galleries, a name shouted contemptuously by beardless corporals.†
Chpt 2.17 *
- They encouraged us to show contempt for him, to abandon him.†
Chpt 2.17
- My classmates and I, with our zealous endorsement of the cadre's contempt for Bentley, had indeed helped create something unseen in the class of 1967.†
Chpt 2.17
- I don't consider them gentlemen and they are all beneath our contempt.†
Chpt 2.18
- Charleston had the democratic good will to look down on all of its suburbs, but it reserved a very special contempt for the industrial city of North Charleston, which not only had the temerity to be extraordinarily common and depressing but had also borrowed the sacred name.†
Chpt 3.24
- She looked at us and smiled obscenely, and I had never seen a smile convey such unadulterated contempt; she looked at us with absolute hatred, as though she were staring into a toilet bowl filled with used condoms.†
Chpt 3.24
- If the emperor was a weak man, the sight of his mark would evoke laughter and contempt, but if he was a stern and powerful ruler, his mark would instill fear and trembling and obedience.†
Chpt 3.26
- He hated with equal gusto the French, the Jews, all Orientals, Slays, Russians, Italians, Latin Americans, Turks, Arabs; in fact, he seemed to have a supreme, footnoted contempt for the entire family of man.†
Chpt 3.27
- The doctor looked at me with contempt and refused to shake my hand.†
Chpt 4.32
- There was a contemptuousness and sonorous menace that must have made him particularly feared among the plebes.†
Chpt 4.36
- Goddam, Will," he said, looking at me contemptuously.†
Chpt 4.36
- I could not turn back and face the contempt and derision of my roommates.†
Chpt 4.37
- He laughed contemptuously and said, "I have more important matters to consider than the excess demerits of a senior private."†
Chpt 4.47