All 8 Uses of
scorn
in
Their Eyes Were Watching God
- The thought put a terrible ache in Logan's body, but he thought it best to put on scorn.†
Chpt 4
- He claims 'tain't no place on uh woman tuh hit," Joe Lindsay said with scornful disapproval, "but Ah'd kill uh baby just born dis mawnin' fuh uh thing lak dat.†
Chpt 6
- Making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time!
Chpt 7 *scorning = rejecting as not good enough
- He had always been scornful of root-doctors and all their kind, but now she saw a faker from over around Altamonte Springs, hanging around the place almost daily.†
Chpt 8
- Holdin' me up tuh scorn.†
Chpt 8
- So he didn't come that night and she laid in bed and pretended to think scornfully of him.†
Chpt 11
- She was sorry for her friends back there and scornful of the others.†
Chpt 14
- She did not laugh the "Saws" to scorn as she had heard the people doing in the season.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough