All 8 Uses of
scorn
in
Great Expectations
- The other, with an effort at a scornful smile, which could not, however, collect the nervous working of his mouth into any set expression, looked at the soldiers, and looked about at the marshes and at the sky, but certainly did not look at the speaker.†
Chpt 5
- She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen.†
Chpt 8
- And scornfully walked away, and—what was worse—took the candle with her.†
Chpt 8 *
- To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.†
Chpt 8
- …after dark, when I was pulling the bellows for Joe, and we were singing Old Clem, and when the thought how we used to sing it at Miss Havisham's would seem to show me Estella's face in the fire, with her pretty hair fluttering in the wind and her eyes scorning me,—often at such a time I would look towards those panels of black night in the wall which the wooden windows then were, and would fancy that I saw her just drawing her face away, and would believe that she had come at last.†
Chpt 14
- Moreover, he was a boy whom no man could hurt; an invulnerable and dodging serpent who, when chased into a corner, flew out again between his captor's legs, scornfully yelping.†
Chpt 30
- But as he sat gloating over me, I was supported by a scornful detestation of him that sealed my lips.†
Chpt 53
- " "It's pity," said I, scornfully, as I finished my interrupted breakfast, "that the man did not say what he had done and would do again."†
Chpt 58
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough