All 10 Uses of
scorn
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Yap, feeling the withering influence of this scorn, tucked his tail in and shrank close to Tom's leg, who felt a little hurt for him, but had not the superhuman courage to seem behindhand with Bob in contempt for a dog who made so poor a figure.†
Chpt 1.6
- Mrs. Glegg emitted a long sort of guttural sound with closed lips, that smiled in mingled pity and scorn.†
Chpt 1.7
- "But I could soon find out," said Maggie, scornfully.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Very commonplace, even ugly, that furniture of our early home might look if it were put up to auction; an improved taste in upholstery scorns it; and is not the striving after something better and better in our surroundings the grand characteristic that distinguishes man from the brute, or, to satisfy a scrupulous accuracy of definition, that distinguishes the British man from the foreign brute?†
Chpt 2.1
- I'd scorn to show it you.†
Chpt 5.2
- Tom said, in a voice of harsh scorn, as soon as Philip's eyes were turned on him again.†
Chpt 5.5
- I'll thrash you; I'll hold you up to public scorn.†
Chpt 5.5
- "Well," said Tom, with cold scorn, "if your feelings are so much better than mine, let me see you show them in some other way than by conduct that's likely to disgrace us all,—than by ridiculous flights first into one extreme and then into another.†
Chpt 5.5
- Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favorite of Heaven because I am not a favorite with men.†
Chpt 6.7
- Lightly to admit conduct in one of your own family that would force you to alter your will, had never been the way of the Dodsons; and though Mrs. Glegg had always augured ill of Maggie's future at a time when other people were perhaps less clear-sighted, yet fair play was a jewel, and it was not for her own friends to help to rob the girl of her fair fame, and to cast her out from family shelter to the scorn of the outer world, until she had become unequivocally a family disgrace.†
Chpt 7.3
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough