All 10 Uses
scorn
in
Cat's Eye
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- We scorn head coverings.†
p. 5.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- She doesn't repeat these items with scorn, but as exotic specialties.†
p. 54.9
- She says this lightly but scornfully, as if only a fool would need to ask.†
p. 78.7 *scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Breasts fascinate Cordelia, and fill her with scorn.†
p. 99.3scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- But I think about Cordelia telling me to do them, not in her scornful voice, in her kind one.†
p. 173.2scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- His scorn for boys who give a hoot about how they look is devastating.†
p. 237.5scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- My brother Stephen treats these boys with scorn.†
p. 263.4
- The two attendants are casual, and scornful.†
p. 349.6scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- Women like me, with a husband, a child, have been referred to with some scorn as nukes, for nuclear family.†
p. 375.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- This was why I could treat his sufferings with such scorn and unconcern: he wasn't real.†
p. 399.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)