All 7 Uses of
scrutiny
in
The House of Mirth
- She looked about the drawing-room with an expression of minute scrutiny.†
Chpt 1.9
- Mrs. Peniston again paused, but this time her scrutiny addressed itself, not to the furniture, but to her niece.†
Chpt 1.9
- It was as the immortalizer of such occasions that little Dabham, wedged in modest watchfulness between two brilliant neighbours, suddenly became the centre of Selden's scrutiny.†
Chpt 2.3
- In the large tumultuous disorder of the life at Bellomont, where no one seemed to have time to observe any one else, and private aims and personal interests were swept along unheeded in the rush of collective activities, Lily had fancied herself sheltered from inconvenient scrutiny; but if Judy knew when Mrs. Fisher borrowed money of her husband, was she likely to ignore the same transaction on Lily's part?†
Chpt 2.4
- "The world is too vile," she murmured, averting herself from Mrs. Fisher's anxious scrutiny.†
Chpt 2.6
- Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.†
Chpt 2.12
- One or two of these passers-by slackened their pace to glance curiously at her lonely figure; but she was hardly conscious of their scrutiny.
Chpt 2.13 *scrutiny = careful look or inspection
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something