All 5 Uses of
scorn
in
The Waves
- But when I get up, brushing the crumbs from my waistcoat, I slip too large a tip, a shilling, under the edge of my plate, so that she may not find it till I am gone, and her scorn, as she picks it up with laughter, may not strike on me till I am past the swing-doors.†
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- I am thrust back to stand burning in this clumsy, this ill-fitting body, to receive the shafts of his indifference and his scorn, I who long for marble columns and pools on the other side of the world where the swallow dips her wings.†
- Scorn and ridicule pierce me.†
- Susan, who feels scorn and fear at the sight of these preparations, fastens the top button of her coat, and unfastens it.†
- And blushing yet scornful, in the oddest condition of raw rapture and scepticism, I took the blow; the mixed sensations; the complex and disturbing and utterly unprepared for impacts of life all over, in all places, at the same time.†
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough