All 10 Uses of
utter
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- That she would do that to him, that she could, when he had spent most of his adult life thinking the word writer was the most important definition of himself, made her seem utterly monstrous, something he must escape.†
Chpt 1 *utterly = completely or totally
- 'It looks good,' he said, uttering the biggest lie of his life with perfect ease, and then asked the question to which he already knew the answer.†
Chpt 1 *uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- He slept the whole night through for the first time since coming out of the gray cloud, and his sleep was for the first time utterly without dreams.†
Chpt 2utterly = completely or totally
- It was not repeated, but it was utterly distinctive.†
Chpt 2
- He was suddenly, utterly sure that she meant to pull the knife from the wall and castrate him with it.†
Chpt 2
- If so, then he was faced with an idiocy that was utterly colossal: he owed his survival to the fact that he wanted to finish the piece of shit Annie had coerced him into writing.†
Chpt 3
- Could you let me in on, Then it came, it came at once, the way all the really ideas came, rounded and smooth and utterly persuasive in its baleful perfection.†
Chpt 3
- Every now and then she would utter 'Goodness!' to the empty rooms.†
Chpt 1
- This new expression was one of utter horror mingled with an almost demented hope.†
Chpt 2
- He had once asked for them in a timid and tentative voice, and she had given him a look of such utter darkness that he had told her at once to forget it.†
Chpt 2
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.