All 8 Uses
scorn
in
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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- The thought put a terrible ache in Logan's body, but he thought it best to put on scorn.†
p. 30.6scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- 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.†
p. 75.3scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- Making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time!
p. 80.7 *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.†
p. 82.1scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- Holdin' me up tuh scorn.†
p. 85.7scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- So he didn't come that night and she laid in bed and pretended to think scornfully of him.†
p. 106.6scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- She was sorry for her friends back there and scornful of the others.†
p. 134.1scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- She did not laugh the "Saws" to scorn as she had heard the people doing in the season.†
p. 139.4scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)