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treat with a strong disrespect or disdain — sometimes accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- harsh words of scorn and intoleranceChapter 32 (30% in)
scorn = disrespect and dislike
- 'A strange choice of favourites!' she observed scornfully.Chapter 2 (19% in)
- ...and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.Chapter 2 (23% in)
- Still it became in a manner necessary; twice, or thrice, Hindley's manifestation of scorn, while his father was near, roused the old man to a fury: he seized his stick to strike him, and shook with rage that he could not do it.Chapter 5 (11% in)
- She did not yell out — no! she would have scorned to do it, if she had been spitted on the horns of a mad cow.Chapter 6 (62% in)
- Hindley lavished on her a torrent of scornful abuse, and bade her get to her room immediately, or she shouldn't cry for nothing!Chapter 9 (87% in)
- 'Your brother is wondrous fond of you too, isn't he?' observed Heathcliff, scornfully.Chapter 14 (42% in)
- I stared full at him, and laughed scornfully.Chapter 17 (64% in)
- 'HE my cousin!' cried Cathy, with a scornful laugh.Chapter 18 (70% in)
- Heathcliff, having stared his son into an ague of confusion, uttered a scornful laugh.Chapter 20 (54% in)
- I saw the old man-servant shared largely in his master's scorn of the child; though he was compelled to retain the sentiment in his heart, because Heathcliff plainly meant his underlings to hold him in honour.Chapter 20 (85% in)
- I've taught him to scorn everything extraanimal as silly and weak.Chapter 21 (48% in)
- There you experience the consequence of scorning "book-larning," as you would say.Chapter 21 (56% in)
- 'LOVING!' cried I, as scornfully as I could utter the word.Chapter 21 (93% in)
- 'MY papa scorns yours!' cried Linton.Chapter 23 (35% in)
- Papa talks enough of my defects, and shows enough scorn of me, to make it natural I should doubt myself.Chapter 24 (84% in)
- Despise me as much as you please; I am a worthless, cowardly wretch: I can't be scorned enough; but I'm too mean for your anger.Chapter 27 (14% in)
- 'Oh, well!' said Catherine, with scornful compassion, 'keep your secret: I'M no coward.Chapter 27 (21% in)
- She scornfully withdrew.Chapter 29 (40% in)
- ' "I've been starved a month and more," she answered, resting on the word as scornful as she could.Chapter 30 (65% in)
- However, I took care there should be no further scorning at my good nature: ever since, I've been as stiff as herself; and she has no lover or liker among us: and she does not deserve one; for, let them say the least word to her, and she'll curl back without respect of any one.Chapter 30 (91% in)
- I had a similar notion; and, remembering Mrs. Dean's anecdote of his first attempt at enlightening the darkness in which he had been reared, I observed, — 'But, Mrs. Heathcliff, we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold; had our teachers scorned instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.'Chapter 31 (50% in)
- Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompters to higher pursuits; and instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavours to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.Chapter 31 (69% in)
- Nay, if it made me a king, I'd not be scorned for seeking her good-will any more.'Chapter 32 (76% in)
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