All 10 Uses
scorn
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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- —Princes of the church, said Mr Casey with slow scorn.†
Chpt 1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Mr Dedalus uttered a guffaw of coarse scorn.†
Chpt 1
- Heron gave the lead and all three joined in a scornful laugh.†
Chpt 2 *scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- —Such is the threefold sting of conscience, the viper which gnaws the very heart's core of the wretches in hell, so that filled with hellish fury they curse themselves for their folly and curse the evil companions who have brought them to such ruin and curse the devils who tempted them in life and now mock them in eternity and even revile and curse the Supreme Being Whose goodness and patience they scorned and slighted but Whose justice and power they cannot evade.†
Chpt 3scorned = disrespected or rejected
- A frown of scorn darkened quickly his forehead as he heard again the silly laugh of the questioner.†
Chpt 4scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- The scorn and anger in his voice brought Cranly's eyes back from a calm survey of the walls of the hall.†
Chpt 5
- Lynch gazed after him, his lip curling in slow scorn till his face resembled a devil's mask: —To think that that yellow pancake-eating excrement can get a good job, he said at length, and I have to smoke cheap cigarettes!†
Chpt 5
- —All your intellectual soul is in that phrase, O'Keeffe, said Temple with open scorn.†
Chpt 5
- he said with scorn to the others.†
Chpt 5
- Temple cried out scornfully.†
Chpt 5scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)