All 10 Uses of
scorn
in
Grendel
- He shook his horns at me, as if scornful.†
Chpt 2
- "Man," he said, then left a long pause, letting scorn build up in the cave like the venom in his breath.†
Chpt 5
- " "Do!" he said leering scornfully.†
Chpt 5
- In some way that I couldn't explain, I knew that his scorn of my childish credulity was right.†
Chpt 5
- It's one thing to listen, full of scorn and doubt, to poets' versions of time past and visions of time to come; it's another to know, as coldly and simply as my mother knows her pile of bones, what is.†
Chpt 6
- Though I scorned them, sometimes hated them, there had been something between myself and men when we could fight.
Chpt 6 *scorned = disrespected
- As if for my benefit, as if in vicious scorn of me, children came from the meadhall and ran down to her, weeping, to snatch at her hands and dress.†
Chpt 7
- Scorn?†
Chpt 7
- I saw his hands unclench, relax, and--torn between tears and a bellow of scorn--I crept back to my cave.†
Chpt 7
- You'll know if it's true, as we heard back home, that I don't know what kind of enemy stalks your hall at night--kills men, so they say, and for some reason scorns your warriors.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough