All 9 Uses of
scorn
in
Rebecca
- She would have looked at me in scorn, smiling that freezing, superior smile of hers, and I can imagine her saying: 'There were never any complaints when Mrs de Winter was alive.'†
Chpt 2
- A sombre eye, a high-bridged nose, a scornful upper lip.†
Chpt 3
- I remembered my father and his scorn of superficial snobbery.†
Chpt 4
- She was a poor creature, and I thought of her with scorn if I considered her at all.†
Chpt 4
- She stooped to pick them up, and as she handed them to me I saw a little smile of scorn upon her lips, and I guessed at once she considered me ill-bred.†
Chpt 7
- Still her eyes never left my face; they looked upon me with a curious mixture of pity and of scorn, until I felt myself to be even younger and more untutored to the ways of life than I had believed.
Chpt 7 *scorn = disrespect or rejection
- Yet there was something beside scorn in those eyes of hers, something surely of positive dislike, or actual malice?†
Chpt 7
- To my surprise Mrs Danvers considered him a moment without speaking, and there was something of scorn in the glance she gave him.†
Chpt 24
- Mrs Danvers looked at him with scorn.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough