All 12 Uses of
prejudice
in
Bleak House
- PREFACE A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate.†
Chpt Pref.
- He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Yet every dim little star revolving about her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and caprices and lives upon as accurate a calculation and as nice a measure of her moral nature as her dressmaker takes of her physical proportions.†
Chpt 1-3
- We are not so prejudiced as to suppose that in private life you are otherwise than a very estimable man, with a great deal of poetry in your nature, of which you may not be conscious.†
Chpt 4-6
- If our conversation shouldn't lead to anything, I am to be as I was and am not to be prejudiced in my situation or worldly prospects.†
Chpt 7-9
- Our plain course, however, under good report and evil report, and all kinds of prejudice (we are the victims of prejudice), is to have everything openly carried on.†
Chpt 58-60
- Our plain course, however, under good report and evil report, and all kinds of prejudice (we are the victims of prejudice), is to have everything openly carried on.†
Chpt 58-60
- I am not warped by prejudices, as an Italian baby is by bandages.†
Chpt 61-63
- Are there reasons why Skimpole, not being warped by prejudices, should accept it?†
Chpt 61-63
- Prejudice, prejudice.†
Chpt 61-63
- Prejudice, prejudice.†
Chpt 61-63
- "Still bent, my dear sir," said Mr. Kenge, showing us through the outer office to the door, "still bent, even with your enlarged mind, on echoing a popular prejudice?†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(prejudice) bias that prevents objective consideration -- especially an unreasonable belief that is unfair to members of a race, religion, or other group