All 8 Uses
disdain
in
Lord Jim
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- In time, beside the original disdain there grew up slowly another sentiment; and suddenly, giving up the idea of going home, he took a berth as chief mate of the Patna.†
Chpt 2 *disdain = a lack of respect
- Then with a shade of disdain he added, "It wasn't you, then?†
Chpt 6
- It was all threats, all a terribly effective feint, a sham from beginning to end, planned by the tremendous disdain of the Dark Powers whose real terrors, always on the verge of triumph, are perpetually foiled by the steadfastness of men.†
Chpt 10
- But she turned her back on them as if in disdain of their fate: she had swung round, burdened, to glare stubbornly at the new danger of the open sea which she so strangely survived to end her days in a breaking-up yard, as if it had been her recorded fate to die obscurely under the blows of many hammers.†
Chpt 12
- He moved his hand slightly to imply disdain.†
Chpt 13
- That he seemed free of the place demonstrated Jim's absurd carelessness or else his infinite disdain, for Cornelius had played a very dubious part (to say the least of it) in a certain episode which might have ended fatally for Jim.†
Chpt 29
- The world he had bullied for twenty years with fierce, aggressive disdain, had yielded him nothing in the way of material advantage except a small bag of silver dollars, which was concealed in his cabin so that "the devil himself couldn't smell it out."†
Chpt 38
- It was then, Brown confessed to me, while, turning his back on his men, he sat looking at it all, that notwithstanding his disdain, his ruthless faith in himself, a feeling came over him that at last he had run his head against a stone wall.†
Chpt 40
Definitions:
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(1)
(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)