All 12 Uses of
scorn
in
The Sign of the Beaver
- The scorn in the boy's face had turned to black anger.†
p. 31.2scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Attean kept to his stubborn, scornful silence.†
p. 34.2scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- "White man not smart like Indian," he said scornfully.†
p. 38.3 *scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- "Indian not use bullet for rabbit," Attean answered scornfully.†
p. 39.2
- Once the Indian had resigned himself to mastering twenty-six letters, he took them in a gulp, scorning the childish candle and door and table that Matt had devised.†
p. 41.8scorning = disrespecting or rejecting as not good enough
- He was laughing again, but somehow not with scorn.†
p. 50.6scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- And he was fed up with Attean's scorn for white men.†
p. 65.5
- Finally her grim lips parted in a single scornful phrase.†
p. 95.2scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- She silenced him with a string of words of which he understood only the scornful piz wat.†
p. 95.9
- He knew well enough that Attean was scornful of the squaw work the white boy had to do, but Attean didn't have to worry about what he was going to eat next day.†
p. 100.1
- He felt shut away from his friend in a way that even the boy's scorn had never made him feel.†
p. 109.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes.†
p. 115.7