All 20 Uses
scorn
in
The Border Legion
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- It was a lie that did not falter on lips which had scorned falsehood.†
Chpt 4scorned = disrespected or rejected
- She lifted her chin scornfully and remained silent.†
Chpt 4 *scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- His strange eyes showed swiftly passing thought—wonder, fear, scorn—even admiration.†
Chpt 5scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Might he not despise her, scorn her, curse her, taking her at Kells's word, the wife of a bandit?†
Chpt 7
- That's not love," she replied in scorn.†
Chpt 8
- She had furiously upbraided him, and when he had finally turned upon her, threatening to prove he was no coward, she had scorned him with a girl's merciless injustice.†
Chpt 8scorned = disrespected or rejected
- Cleve seemed aloof, detached, indifferent to everything, with a white, weary, reckless scorn.†
Chpt 10scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- A lightning flash of scorn leaped to them.†
Chpt 10
- He only recognized in her a woman, and his scorn was for the creature that bandit garb proclaimed her to be.†
Chpt 10
- His scorn had been for the betrayed youth and womanhood suggested by her appearance.†
Chpt 10
- And upon the face of Cleve shone an immeasurable scorn.†
Chpt 11
- Again that white, weary scorn radiated from him.†
Chpt 11
- It was she, Joan Randle, that had earned that scorn, whether he knew her or not.†
Chpt 11
- The shades of scorn and bitterness and abandon might never have haunted his face.†
Chpt 12
- "Jim, if I was dyin' fer a drink I wouldn't stand fer thet deal," added Blicky, with a fine scorn.†
Chpt 14
- Red Pearce's coarse face twisted into a scornful sneer.†
Chpt 15scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- The bandits were gay, derisive, scornful, eager, like a group of boys, half surly, half playful, at a game.†
Chpt 19
- "Let him keep it," declared Kells, scornfully.†
Chpt 19scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- The scornful and exultant looks of his men proved how that game was going.†
Chpt 19scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- The bandit's effort to pull himself together, to be a man before that scornful gang, was pitiful and futile.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)