All 9 Uses of
utter
in
Pygmalion
- A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere—no right to live.†
Act 1 (definition 1)
- Liza, utterly bewildered, stares helplessly at him.†
Act 2 (definition 2) *
- HIGGINS [loftily] I cannot charge myself with having ever uttered it, Mrs. Pearce.†
Act 2 (definition 1) *
- She's a triumph of your art and of her dressmaker's; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesn't give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her.†
Act 3 (definition 1)
- The slippers came bang into my face the moment I entered the room—before I had uttered a word.†
Act 5 (definition 1)
- I don't believe I could utter one of the old sounds if I tried.†
Act 5 (definition 2)
- She drops her work, losing her self-possession utterly at the spectacle of her father's splendor] A—a—a—a—a—ah—ow—ooh!†
Act 5 (definition 2)
- She was, in short, an utter failure, an ignorant, incompetent, pretentious, unwelcome, penniless, useless little snob; and though she did not admit these disqualifications (for nobody ever faces unpleasant truths of this kind until the possibility of a way out dawns on them) she felt their effects too keenly to be satisfied with her position.†
Act 5 (definition 2)
- Unfortunately he knew nothing else; and Eliza, though she could count money up to eighteen shillings or so, and had acquired a certain familiarity with the language of Milton from her struggles to qualify herself for winning Higgins's bet, could not write out a bill without utterly disgracing the establishment.†
Act 5 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(2) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)