All 12 Uses
scorn
in
The Blind Assassin
(Edited)
- The things they concealed would have been pendulous, vulnerable, shameful, unavoidable — the category of objects the world needs but scorns.
p. 53.9scorns = rejects as not good
- Laura looked at her with scorn, and went back to her colouring.
p. 156.4scorn = disrespect or rejection
- "He's new money, anyhow," said Reenie scornfully, surveying Richard Griffen.
p. 175.6scornfully = with disrespect and rejection
- She was unforgiving of anyone who criticized Father (anyone, that is, except herself), and scornful of those who rose in the world and then acted above their level, or what she considered their level; and it was a known fact that the Griffens were common as dirt, or at least their grandfather was.
p. 175.6scornful = full of dislike or rejection
- I felt scorned by the women and stared at by the men.
p. 197.9scorned = rejected
- She said he hadn't scorned the free handouts.
p. 206.2
- She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings.
p. 288.9scorn = disrespect and rejection
- Reenie would be scornful of this interior — of its gleaming emptiness, its pallor.
p. 306.3scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection as not good enough
- "I don't have a crush on him," she said with scorn.
p. 336.8scorn = strong disrespect as not good enough
- We could not be absolutely prohibited, but we would be certain to attract an annoying measure of subdued scorn.
p. 387.3 *scorn = disrespect or rejection as not good enough
- Peace in our time, he says scornfully.
p. 462.3scornfully = sarcastically
- It will be raining, as it is this evening, but you won't have an umbrella, you'd scorn umbrellas; the young like their heads to be whipped about by the elements, they find it bracing.
p. 521.1scorn = reject
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)