All 6 Uses of
scorn
in
The House of Mirth
- Lily reviewed them with a scornful impatience: Carry Fisher, with her shoulders, her eyes, her divorces, her general air of embodying a "spicy paragraph"; young Silverton, who had meant to live on proof-reading and write an epic, and who now lived on his friends and had become critical of truffles; Alice Wetherall, an animated visiting-list, whose most fervid convictions turned on the wording of invitations and the engraving of dinner-cards; Wetherall, with his perpetual nervous nod of…†
Chpt 1.5
- The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- She drew back from him with a desperate assumption of scorn.†
Chpt 1.13
- She had rejected Rosedale's suggestion with a promptness of scorn almost surprising to herself: she had not lost her capacity for high flashes of indignation.†
Chpt 2.8
- They had parted with scorn on her side and anger upon his; but all trace of these emotions seemed to vanish as their hands met, and she was only aware of a confused wish that she might continue to hold fast to him.†
Chpt 2.10
- The temptation, which her scorn of Rosedale had once enabled her to reject, now insistently returned upon her; and how much strength was left her to oppose it?†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough