All 6 Uses of
incessant
in
Babbitt
- Interwoven with correspondence and advertisement-writing were a thousand nervous details: calls from clerks who were incessantly and hopefully seeking five furnished rooms and bath at sixty dollars a month; advice to Mat Penniman on getting money out of tenants who had no money.†
Chpt 4
- The delegates were entertained, incessantly and firmly.†
Chpt 13
- he was angry at Eddie Swanson for the incessant family bickering.
Chpt 23 *incessant = continuously/annoyingly
- Nor was it at all evident to his acquaintances that there was a new George F. Babbitt, save that he was more irritable under the incessant chaffing at the Athletic Club, and once, when Vergil Gunch observed that Seneca Doane ought to be hanged, Babbitt snorted, "Oh, rats, he's not so bad."†
Chpt 26
- The independence seeped out of him and he walked the streets alone, afraid of men's cynical eyes and the incessant hiss of whispering.†
Chpt 32
- But she remained awake and worrying while Babbitt, on the sleeping-porch, struggled back into sleep through the incessant soft rain of her remarks.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(incessant) continuous -- often in an annoying way