All 7 Uses of
utter
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- How utterly absurd!†
Chpt 14utterly = completely or totally
- She was indignant that Carol should not be utterly fulfilled in having borne Kennicott's child.†
Chpt 21 *
- With unusual solicitude he uttered his stock phrase, "Well, what seems to be the matter, Maud?"†
Chpt 25 *uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- From the front, Howland & Gould's grocery was smug enough, but attached to the rear was a lean-to of storm streaked pine lumber with a sanded tar roof—a staggering doubtful shed behind which was a heap of ashes, splintered packing-boxes, shreds of excelsior, crumpled straw-board, broken olive-bottles, rotten fruit, and utterly disintegrated vegetables: orange carrots turning black, and potatoes with ulcers.†
Chpt 29utterly = completely or totally
- Now she lay across the bed, in crumpled lavender cotton and shabby pumps, very feminine, utterly cowed.†
Chpt 32
- Though she should return, she said, she would not be utterly defeated.†
Chpt 38
- She did not utter them so compactly that they can be given in her words; they were roughened with "Well, you see" and "if you get what I mean" and "I don't know that I'm making myself clear."†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2)
(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.