All 3 Uses
scorn
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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- I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.†
Chpt 21scorns = disrespects or rejects as not valuable enough
- Then he says, slow and scornful:
Chpt 22 *scornful = in a disrespectful manner
- He only just looked scornful, and said something about nobody ever heard of such an idiotic idea, and then he went to studying.†
Chpt 36scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)