All 11 Uses
scorn
in
The Call of the Canyon
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- His scorn and repudiation of her gave Carley intense relief.†
Chpt 6scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- The dead whiteness of Glenn's face, the lightning scorn of his eyes, the grim, stark strangeness of him then had for Carley a terrible harmony with this passionate denunciation of her, of her kind, of the America for whom he had lost all.†
Chpt 7
- By that terrible expression of his face, by those thundering words of scorn, would she come to realize the mighty truth of his descent into the abyss and his rise to the heights.†
Chpt 7
- Carley divined now, as if by a flash of lightning, the meaning of Glenn's strange, cold, scornful, and aloof manner when he had encountered young men of his station, as capable and as strong as he, who had escaped the service of the army.†
Chpt 7scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- She set her will and steeled her heart with all the pride and vanity and fury of a woman who had been defeated but Who scorned defeat.†
Chpt 8 *scorned = disrespected or rejected
- She thrust the thought from her with passionate scorn.†
Chpt 9scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Carley shrank under the scorn in Rust's eyes.†
Chpt 9
- Scorned—despised—dismissed by that poor crippled flame-spirited Virgil Rust!†
Chpt 10scorned = disrespected or rejected
- And his scorn had been commensurate with the falsehood of her.†
Chpt 10scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- "No, you were a slacker," went on Carley, with scathing scorn.†
Chpt 10
- Far distant seemed the home of her childhood, the friends she had scorned and forsaken, the city of complaining and striving millions.†
Chpt 11scorned = disrespected or rejected
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)