All 10 Uses of
scrutiny
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Nastasya scrutinised him, silent and frowning, and her scrutiny lasted a long time.†
Chpt 2.2unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it scrutinized.
- Nastasya scrutinised him, silent and frowning, and her scrutiny lasted a long time.†
Chpt 2.2 *scrutiny = careful look or inspection
- Then with the same deliberation he scrutinised the uncouth, unkempt figure and unshaven face of Razumihin, who looked him boldly and inquiringly in the face without rising from his seat.†
Chpt 2.5unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it scrutinized.
- The visitor scrutinised him and pronounced impressively: "Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin.†
Chpt 2.5
- Dounia gazed gravely and intently into the poor girl's face, and scrutinised her with perplexity.†
Chpt 3.4
- Sonia looked in silence at her visitor, who was so attentively and unceremoniously scrutinising her room, and even began at last to tremble with terror, as though she was standing before her judge and the arbiter of her destinies.†
Chpt 4.4unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it scrutinizing.
- That's the explanation," he decided, scrutinising her with eager curiosity, with a new, strange, almost morbid feeling.†
Chpt 4.4
- Svidrigailov was silently watching and scrutinising him and, what struck Raskolnikov at once, seemed to be meaning to get up and slip away unobserved.†
Chpt 6.3
- For a full minute he scrutinised his face, which had impressed him before.†
Chpt 6.3unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it scrutinized.
- "Well, if you come to that," Svidrigailov answered, scrutinising Raskolnikov with some surprise, "if you come to that, you are a thorough cynic yourself.†
Chpt 6.4unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it scrutinizing.
Definition:
careful examination of something