All 50 Uses of
utter
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Seeing that Alyosha Karamazov put his fingers in his ears when they talked of "that," they used sometimes to crowd round him, pull his hands away, and shout nastiness into both ears, while he struggled, slipped to the floor, tried to hide himself without uttering one word of abuse, enduring their insults in silence.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- He only listened to Grigory's minute and solemn account of the erection of the tomb; he stood with bowed head and walked away without uttering a word.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal—such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- Oh, since you have been so good as to let us see you once more to-day, let me tell you what I could not utter last time, what I dared not say, all I am suffering and have been for so long!†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Having uttered these words Dmitri ceased speaking as suddenly as he had begun.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- That you should utter a word about her is an outrage, and I won't permit it!"†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- As he uttered the last word of his tirade, Miuesov completely recovered his self-complacency, and all traces of his former irritation disappeared.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- But as soon as he had uttered his foolish tirade, he felt he had been talking absurd nonsense, and at once longed to prove to his audience, and above all to himself, that he had not been talking nonsense.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- "It was said of old, 'Many have begun to speak against me and have uttered evil sayings about me.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- She could hardly speak, and only from time to time uttered an inarticulate grunt.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Over the hurdle in the garden, Dmitri, mounted on something, was leaning forward, gesticulating violently, beckoning to him, obviously afraid to utter a word for fear of being overheard.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- He uttered the last words in a sort of exaltation.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- "And if I've ceased to be a Christian, then I told no lie to the enemy when they asked whether I was a Christian or not a Christian, seeing I had already been relieved by God Himself of my Christianity by reason of the thought alone, before I had time to utter a word to the enemy.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Seeing this, Dmitri uttered a scream rather than a shout and rushed at Grigory.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- For his opinion had struck him as awfully foolish immediately after he had uttered it.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- It was with the more amazement that he felt now, at the first glance at Katerina Ivanovna as she ran in to him, that he had perhaps been utterly mistaken.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2) *
- The last words she uttered in tears.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *
- Every feature was working in her utterly distorted face.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- The beekeeper, who lived close by the apiary, used to bring him the bread every three days, and even to this man who waited upon him, Father Ferapont rarely uttered a word.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- On very rare occasions, however, he would talk to visitors, but for the most part he would utter some one strange saying which was a complete riddle, and no entreaties would induce him to pronounce a word in explanation.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Father Paissy, too, uttered some words of exhortation which moved and surprised him greatly.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- Maybe, remembering this great day, you will not forget my words, uttered from the heart for your guidance, seeing you are young, and the temptations of the world are great and beyond your strength to endure.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- Now for the second thing, but first a question: does the pain prevent you talking about utterly unimportant things, but talking sensibly?†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- The word "lacerating," which Madame Hohlakov had just uttered, almost made him start, because half waking up towards daybreak that night he had cried out "Laceration, laceration," probably applying it to his dream.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- She turned and disappeared behind the portiere so quickly that Alyosha had not time to utter a word, though he wanted to speak.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Alyosha was carried away with joy as he uttered his last words, "And then he will take it!"†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- All such questions are utterly inappropriate for a mind created with an idea of only three dimensions.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- And so I accept God and am glad to, and what's more, I accept His wisdom, His purpose—which are utterly beyond our ken; I believe in the underlying order and the meaning of life; I believe in the eternal harmony in which they say we shall one day be blended.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- If it were possible to imagine simply for the sake of argument that those three questions of the dread spirit had perished utterly from the books, and that we had to restore them and to invent them anew, and to do so had gathered together all the wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would not only fit the occasion, but express in three words, three human phrases, the whole future…†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- And behold, instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest for ever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic; Thou didst choose what was utterly beyond the strength of men, acting as though Thou didst not love them at all—Thou who didst come to give Thy life for them!†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- "They are both utterly crazy, they are no better than little children," Smerdyakov went on.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Of his teaching and opinions we find brought together sayings evidently uttered on very different occasions.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Alyosha glanced at him, uncovering his face, which was swollen with crying like a child's, but turned away at once without uttering a word and hid his face in his hands again.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- Father Ferapont, too, got up and crossing himself went back to his cell without looking round, still uttering exclamations which were utterly incoherent.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- Father Ferapont, too, got up and crossing himself went back to his cell without looking round, still uttering exclamations which were utterly incoherent.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- "Do you know, Alyosha," he peeped inquisitively into his eyes, absorbed in a sudden new thought which had dawned on him, and though he was laughing outwardly he was evidently afraid to utter that new idea aloud, so difficult he still found it to believe in the strange and unexpected mood in which he now saw Alyosha.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Would you believe it, I sometimes look at you and feel ashamed, utterly ashamed of myself….†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- And when I suddenly thought that I should really do nothing to him, and that he was laughing at me then, or perhaps had utterly forgotten me, I would fling myself on the floor, melt into helpless tears, and lie there shaking till dawn.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- She uttered the last words in an hysterical scream, but broke down again, hid her face in her hands, buried it in the pillow and shook with sobs.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- He stretched out his hands, uttered a cry and waked up.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- At the last phrase he had suddenly become hopelessly aware that it had all fallen flat, above all, that he had been talking utter nonsense.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- When Mitya had gone, Kuzma Kuzmitch, white with rage, turned to his son and bade him see to it that that beggar be never seen again, and never admitted even into the yard, or else he'd— He did not utter his threat.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Yet, after prolonged exertions, he could only succeed in getting the drunken man to utter absurd grunts, and violent, but inarticulate oaths.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- What was insufferably humiliating was, that after leaving things of such importance and making such sacrifices, he, Mitya, utterly worn out, should with business of such urgency be standing over this dolt on whom his whole fate depended, while he snored as though there were nothing the matter, as though he'd dropped from another planet.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Fenya uttered a piercing shriek on seeing him.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- But without giving the terror-stricken Fenya time to utter a word, he fell all of a heap at her feet.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Then he uttered a deep sigh, again stood still a moment, walked carelessly up to the looking-glass on the wall, with his right hand raised the red bandage on his forehead a little, and began examining his bruises and scars, which had not yet disappeared.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- He stood facing her, pale as death, unable to utter a word, but his eyes showed that he realized it all, all, from the first word, and guessed the whole position.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- But suddenly, as gently and mildly as a gentle and affectionate child, he began speaking to Fenya as though he had utterly forgotten how he had scared and hurt her just now.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Seeing him with his face all smeared with blood, the young man uttered a cry of surprise.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
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)