All 3 Uses of
scorn
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with…†
Chpt 21
- Then he says, slow and scornful:
Chpt 22 *scornful = in a disrespectful manner
- He only just looked scornful, and said something about nobody ever heard of such an idiotic idea, and then he went to studying.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough