All 16 Uses
scorn
in
Lord Jim
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- 'Drink!' repeated the engineer with amiable scorn: he was hanging on with both hands to the rail, a shadowy figure with flexible legs.†
Chpt 3 *scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- He had a thin horseshoe beard, salient cheek-bones, and with both elbows on the desk clasped his rugged hands before his face, looking at Jim with thoughtful blue eyes; the other, a heavy, scornful man, thrown back in his seat, his left arm extended full length, drummed delicately with his finger-tips on a blotting-pad: in the middle the magistrate upright in the roomy arm-chair, his head inclined slightly on the shoulder, had his arms crossed on his breast and a few flowers in a glass vase by the side of his inkstand.†
Chpt 4scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- The commonest sort of fortitude prevents us from becoming criminals in a legal sense; it is from weakness unknown, but perhaps suspected, as in some parts of the world you suspect a deadly snake in every bush—from weakness that may lie hidden, watched or unwatched, prayed against or manfully scorned, repressed or maybe ignored more than half a lifetime, not one of us is safe.†
Chpt 5scorned = disrespected or rejected
- He tried to crush me by the scorn of his glance.†
Chpt 6scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- He saw it all, he could talk about it with scorn and bitterness; he had a minute knowledge of it by means of some sixth sense, I conclude, because he swore to me he had remained apart without a glance at them and at the boat—without one single glance.†
Chpt 8
- His voice, sinking to a whisper, now and then would leap up suddenly, hardened by the passion of scorn, as though he had been talking of secret abominations.†
Chpt 10
- His unconscious face reflected the passing expressions of scorn, of despair, of resolution—reflected them in turn, as a magic mirror would reflect the gliding passage of unearthly shapes.†
Chpt 13
- "Takes it to heart?" he asked scornfully.†
Chpt 14scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- He had had enough to drink to turn nasty after the sixth game, and make some scornful remark at Jim's expense.†
Chpt 19scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- He interrupted me a little scornfully.†
Chpt 19scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Sometimes, though, she would hold out full of scorn, confronting him in silence, her face sombre and contracted, and only now and then uttering a word or two that would make the other jump and writhe with the sting.†
Chpt 30scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Brown was a latter-day buccaneer, sorry enough, like his more celebrated prototypes; but what distinguished him from his contemporary brother ruffians, like Bully Hayes or the mellifluous Pease, or that perfumed, Dundreary-whiskered, dandified scoundrel known as Dirty Dick, was the arrogant temper of his misdeeds and a vehement scorn for mankind at large and for his victims in particular.†
Chpt 38
- "They call him," said Cornelius scornfully, "Tuan Jim here.†
Chpt 39scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Brown applied to, said, "Go, and be d—d to you," scornfully.†
Chpt 40
- '"That's what I told him—I knew what to say," he began again, feebly at first, but working himself up with incredible speed into a fiery utterance of his scorn.†
Chpt 41scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Standing at the gate of the other world in the guise of a beggar, he had slapped this world's face, he had spat on it, he had thrown upon it an immensity of scorn and revolt at the bottom of his misdeeds.†
Chpt 41
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)