All 12 Uses
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Notes from the Underground
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- And it went off all right; all this was uttered very easily, unconstrainedly and complacently.†
Chpt 2.8 *uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason ...and ...and ...do you know that that, too, is profitable, sometimes even praiseworthy?†
Chpt 1.8 *
- You doubtlessly mean to say something, but hide your last word through fear, because you have not the resolution to utter it, and only have a cowardly impudence.†
Chpt 1.11
- They did not fight duels and would have thought a duel with a civilian like me an utterly unseemly procedure in any case—and they looked upon the duel altogether as something impossible, something free-thinking and French.†
Chpt 2.1
- That was my ruin, for when I was in the mud I comforted myself with the thought that at other times I was a hero, and the hero was a cloak for the mud: for an ordinary man it was shameful to defile himself, but a hero was too lofty to be utterly defiled, and so he might defile himself.†
Chpt 2.2
- The look in those eyes was coldly detached, sullen, as it were utterly remote; it weighed upon me.†
Chpt 2.6
- I recalled, too, that during those two hours I had not said a single word to this creature, and had, in fact, considered it utterly superfluous; in fact, the silence had for some reason gratified me.†
Chpt 2.6
- I ought to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.†
Chpt 2.6
- They have become utterly vile, and nothing on earth is viler, more loathsome, and more insulting than their abuse.†
Chpt 2.7
- I defended myself, "if I really may be allowed to defend myself," by alleging that being utterly unaccustomed to wine, I had been intoxicated with the first glass, which I said, I had drunk before they arrived, while I was waiting for them at the Hotel de Paris between five and six o'clock.†
Chpt 2.8
- I was particularly pleased with a certain lightness, almost carelessness (strictly within the bounds of politeness, however), which was apparent in my style, and better than any possible arguments, gave them at once to understand that I took rather an independent view of "all that unpleasantness last night"; that I was by no means so utterly crushed as you, my friends, probably imagine; but on the contrary, looked upon it as a gentleman serenely respecting himself should look upon it.†
Chpt 2.8
- All at once, A PROPOS of nothing, he would walk softly and smoothly into my room, when I was pacing up and down or reading, stand at the door, one hand behind his back and one foot behind the other, and fix upon me a stare more than severe, utterly contemptuous.†
Chpt 2.8
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) Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.