All 24 Uses of
scorn
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'A strange choice of favourites!' she observed scornfully.†
Chpt 2
- …and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.†
Chpt 2
- Still it became in a manner necessary; twice, or thrice, Hindley's manifestation of scorn, while his father was near, roused the old man to a fury: he seized his stick to strike him, and shook with rage that he could not do it.†
Chpt 5
- She did not yell out — no! she would have scorned to do it, if she had been spitted on the horns of a mad cow.†
Chpt 6
- Hindley lavished on her a torrent of scornful abuse, and bade her get to her room immediately, or she shouldn't cry for nothing!†
Chpt 9
- 'Your brother is wondrous fond of you too, isn't he?' observed Heathcliff, scornfully.†
Chpt 14
- I stared full at him, and laughed scornfully.†
Chpt 17
- 'HE my cousin!' cried Cathy, with a scornful laugh.†
Chpt 18
- Heathcliff, having stared his son into an ague of confusion, uttered a scornful laugh.†
Chpt 20
- I saw the old man-servant shared largely in his master's scorn of the child; though he was compelled to retain the sentiment in his heart, because Heathcliff plainly meant his underlings to hold him in honour.†
Chpt 20
- I've taught him to scorn everything extraanimal as silly and weak.†
Chpt 21
- There you experience the consequence of scorning "book-larning," as you would say.†
Chpt 21
- 'LOVING!' cried I, as scornfully as I could utter the word.†
Chpt 21
- 'MY papa scorns yours!' cried Linton.†
Chpt 23
- Papa talks enough of my defects, and shows enough scorn of me, to make it natural I should doubt myself.†
Chpt 24
- Despise me as much as you please; I am a worthless, cowardly wretch: I can't be scorned enough; but I'm too mean for your anger.†
Chpt 27
- 'Oh, well!' said Catherine, with scornful compassion, 'keep your secret: I'M no coward.†
Chpt 27
- She scornfully withdrew.†
Chpt 29
- ' "I've been starved a month and more," she answered, resting on the word as scornful as she could.†
Chpt 30
- However, I took care there should be no further scorning at my good nature: ever since, I've been as stiff as herself; and she has no lover or liker among us: and she does not deserve one; for, let them say the least word to her, and she'll curl back without respect of any one.†
Chpt 30
- I had a similar notion; and, remembering Mrs. Dean's anecdote of his first attempt at enlightening the darkness in which he had been reared, I observed, — 'But, Mrs. Heathcliff, we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold; had our teachers scorned instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.'†
Chpt 31
- Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompters to higher pursuits; and instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavours to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.†
Chpt 31
- harsh words of scorn and intolerance
Chpt 32 *scorn = disrespect or rejection
- Nay, if it made me a king, I'd not be scorned for seeking her good-will any more.'†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough