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reject as not good enough
- I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry,—I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart—God knows what its name was,—that tears started to my eyes.Chapter 8 (74% in)
- That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well.Chapter 49 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "spurn" in Great Expectations.
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