All 3 Uses of
incessant
in
Crime and Punishment
- She moved uneasily, and curtsied incessantly, waiting impatiently for a chance of putting in her word: and at last she found it.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- I began this discussion with an object, but I've grown so sick during the last three years of this chattering to amuse oneself, of this incessant flow of commonplaces, always the same, that, by Jove, I blush even when other people talk like that.†
Chpt 2.5
- Sometimes days and even weeks of gloomy silence and tears would be succeeded by a period of hysterical animation, and the invalid would begin to talk almost incessantly of her son, of her hopes of his futureā¦.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(incessant) continuous -- often in an annoying way