All 9 Uses of
utter
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Then Mama slumped down and gave in utterly.†
Chpt 4 *utterly = completely or totally
- while his big lips uttered and his nose drove out smoke, clever and pleasurable in the warm, heavy blue of Michigan;†
Chpt 5 *uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- And although not convinced by her, I wasn't utterly horrified for the unborn either.†
Chpt 12utterly = completely or totally
- Utterly fascinated I was, and forgot how I sat on my bones, getting up lamed, dazed by all that boldness of assumption and reckoning.†
Chpt 16
- I uttered a kind of sob and shook my head.†
Chpt 19uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- This was a strange thing, first to be overwhelmed with talk and then to be utterly isolated.†
Chpt 25utterly = completely or totally
- Or he'd have murdered and eaten me, still calm and utterly reasonable, and gone on steering to his goal.†
Chpt 25
- He was lenient about my greenness, and I had some support from him and Jimmy when I took sick with love, with classic symptoms of choked appetite and utter absorption, hankering, great refinements of respect in looks, incompetent, and full of movie-born ideas and phrases of popular songs.†
Chpt 4
- You have dinner, and it's soft nerveless green night with quiet gas mantles in the street going on incandescent and making a long throbbing scratch in the utter night.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2)
(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.