All 3 Uses of
congenial
in
Catch-22
- The woman caught him by the wrists before he could fall as he came stumbling toward her in need and pulled him along down on top of her as she flopped over backward onto the bed and enveloped him hospitably in her flaccid and consoling embrace, her dust mop aloft in her hand like a banner as her broad, brutish congenial face gazed up at him fondly with a smile of unperjured friendship.†
Chpt 16
- 'And just in time, too,' announced the doctor with whom Yossarian next found himself alone, a tall, torpedo-shaped congenial man with an unshaven growth of brown beard and a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket that he chain-smoked insouciantly as he leaned against the wall.†
Chpt 18
- They were reckless, puerile, congenial, naive, presumptuous, deferential and rambunctious.†
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(congenial) agreeable or compatible in a positive way -- often in the context of being friendly and sociable