All 8 Uses
scorn
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Tender is the Night
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- Presently her ear distinguished individual voices and she became aware that some one referred to scornfully as "that North guy" had kidnapped a waiter from a café in Cannes last night in order to saw him in two.†
Chpt 1.1scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Unlike American trains that were absorbed in an intense destiny of their own, and scornful of people on another world less swift and breathless, this train was part of the country through which it passed.†
Chpt 1.3scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- Rosemary stood beside Tommy Barban—he was in a particularly scornful mood and there seemed to be some special stimulus working upon him.†
Chpt 1.6
- Tommy laughed scornfully.†
Chpt 1.11 *scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Hypnosis was a tool that Dick had distrusted and seldom used, for he knew that he could not always summon up the mood in himself—he had once tried it on Nicole and she had scornfully laughed at him.†
Chpt 2.14
- As they crossed the flags a groaning, hissing, booing sound went up from the loiterers in the courtyard, voices full of fury and scorn.†
Chpt 2.23scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Dick was going to try his lifting trick and Nicole began to watch with smiling scorn.†
Chpt 3.7
- "It was merely a lark," said Lady Caroline with scorn.†
Chpt 3.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)