All 7 Uses of
apprehensive
in
Catch-22
- He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.†
Chpt 14
- 'Now I will let you sleep with me,' she explained cautiously in a manner of apprehensive indulgence.†
Chpt 16 *
- He was flattered and apprehensive, certain that some severe official would soon appear and throw the whole lot of them out like a pack of bums.†
Chpt 34
- People stared at him strangely, making him more apprehensive.†
Chpt 38
- The nasty, small, gloating smile with which she glanced back at the laboring old woman was both wicked and apprehensive.†
Chpt 39
- He poured envelope after envelope of the white crystalline powder into the bloody oval wound until nothing red could be seen and then drew a deep, apprehensive breath, steeling himself with gritted teeth as he touched his bare hand to the dangling shreds of drying flesh to tuck them up inside the wound.†
Chpt 41
- Major Danby asked apprehensively when the chaplain had shot from the room.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune