Both Uses of
scorn
in
The Bluest Eye
- They abused their visitors with a scorn grown mechanical from use.†
Chpt 2 *scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds—cooled—and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.†
Chpt 3