All 5 Uses of
caustic
in
Catch-22
- He laughed caustically.
Chpt 18caustically = harshly
- …flights of creaking wooden stairs and guided them through a doorway into their own wonderful and resplendent tenement apartment, which burgeoned miraculously with an infinite and proliferating flow of supple young naked girls and contained the evil and debauched ugly old man who irritated Nately constantly with his caustic laughter and the clucking, proper old woman in the ash-gray woolen sweater who disapproved of everything immoral that occurred there and tried her best to tidy up.
Chpt 23caustic = harsh
- "Did the dead man in my tent have a share?" Yossarian demanded caustically.
Chpt 24caustically = harshly or in a critical manner
- 'Would it be any less terrible if they had all been new men?' he inquired caustically.
Chpt 36
- "What a sweet way you have of putting things!" Yossarian snapped with caustic resentment.
Chpt 42 *caustic = sarcastic
Definition:
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(caustic as in: a caustic person) sarcastic, critical, or harsh