Both Uses of
deterrent
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business and the old dog smelling him all the time I'm told those jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don't know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on.†
Chpt 12deterrent = something that discourages something not wanted
- —There's one thing it hasn't a deterrent effect on, says Alf.†
Chpt 12 *