All 22 Uses of
scorn
in
Sons and Lovers
- "Your father's not come yet," said the landlady, in the peculiar half-scornful, half-patronising voice of a woman who talks chiefly to grown men.†
Chpt 1.4
- Then they tied their scarves round their necks, for they scorned overcoats, as all the colliers' children did, and went out.†
Chpt 1.4
- "What a way to climb!" he exclaimed scornfully, when she was safely to earth again.†
Chpt 1.6
- On the whole, she scorned the male sex.†
Chpt 2.7
- Yet she tried hard to scorn him, because he would not see in her the princess but only the swine-girl.†
Chpt 2.7
- They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.†
Chpt 2.7
- They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.†
Chpt 2.7
- When she went downstairs Paul was lying back in an armchair, holding forth with much vehemence to Agatha, who was scorning a little painting he had brought to show her.†
Chpt 2.7
- And to Miriam he said, with much scorn of Annie and the others: "I suppose they're at the 'Coons'."†
Chpt 2.7
- She had scornful grey eyes, a skin like white honey, and a full mouth, with a slightly lifted upper lip that did not know whether it was raised in scorn of all men or out of eagerness to be kissed, but which believed the former.†
Chpt 2.8
- She had scornful grey eyes, a skin like white honey, and a full mouth, with a slightly lifted upper lip that did not know whether it was raised in scorn of all men or out of eagerness to be kissed, but which believed the former.†
Chpt 2.8
- She intended to scorn him.†
Chpt 2.9
- Suddenly, looking at her, he saw that the upward lifting of her face was misery and not scorn.†
Chpt 2.9
- She would shrug her shoulders in scorn of his work.
Chpt 2.10 *scorn = disrespect or rejection
- She seemed to scorn the work she mechanically produced; yet the hose she made were as nearly perfect as possible.†
Chpt 2.10
- She was bitter, and she scorned him.†
Chpt 2.12
- "And do you call THAT looking nice!" cried the mother, pointing a scornful fork at Clara.†
Chpt 2.12
- I could have worn evening dress with anybody, if I'd wanted to!" came the scornful answer.†
Chpt 2.12
- There was a sort of scornful forbearance in the woman's tone that made Paul know she was mollified.†
Chpt 2.12
- She's turned sixty!" came the scornful answer.†
Chpt 2.12
- "I KNEW he could," protested Mrs. Morel scornfully.†
Chpt 2.13
- And she sniffed in her old scornful way.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough