All 14 Uses of
contempt
in
Catch-22
- Every time she met Orr after that, she'd hoist her skirts up over her tight white elastic panties and, jeering coarsely, bulge her firm, round belly out at him, cursing him contemptuously and then roaring with husky laughter as she saw him giggle fearfully and take refuge behind Yossarian.†
Chpt 3
- Lieutenant Scheisskopf was so elated by his unexpected achievement that he gave his wife a sharp crack over the head with the pole when she tried to drag him into bed to celebrate by showing their contempt for the sexual mores of the lower middle classes in Western civilization.†
Chpt 8
- He walked through life selfconsciously with downcast eyes and burning cheeks, the object of contempt, envy, suspicion, resentment and malicious innuendo everywhere he went.†
Chpt 9
- …of Rome, where he was wounded in the eye by a flower fired at him from close range by a seedy, cackling, intoxicated old man, who, like Satan himself, had then bounded up on Major — de Coverley's car with malicious glee, seized him roughly and contemptuously by his venerable white head and kissed him mockingly on each cheek with a mouth reeking with sour fumes of wine, cheese and garlic, before dropping back into the joyous celebrating throngs with a hollow, dry, excoriating laugh.†
Chpt 13
- They doted kittenishly on Nately and deferred passively to Aarfy, but they thought Yossarian was crazy and recoiled from him with distasteful contempt each time he made an indecent proposal or tried to fondle them when they passed on the stairs.†
Chpt 16
- He was openly rude and contemptuous to the chaplain once he discovered that the chaplain would let him get away with it.†
Chpt 20
- 'That bastard,' General Dreedle would complain about his son-in-law with a contemptuous grunt to anyone who happened to be standing beside him at the curve of the bar of the officers' club.†
Chpt 21
- The old man roared with contemptuous merriment at Nately's look of embarrassed surprise.†
Chpt 23
- Corporal Whitcomb continued, biting the chaplain's black thread apart contemptuously with a loud snap and buttoning on his shirt.†
Chpt 25
- 'Go on along with them,' Captain Black called out to the chaplain with a hostile and contemptuous sneer.†
Chpt 36
- 'It means we'll think about it, Padre,' he answered with sarcasm and contempt.†
Chpt 36
- The commissioner of police unbuttoned his tunic again and looked at Yossarian with contempt.†
Chpt 39
- 'Of course,' Colonel Korn answered pleasantly, after he had chased the mighty guard of massive M.P.s out with an insouciant flick of his hand and a slightly contemptuous nod — most relaxed, as always, when he could be most cynical.†
Chpt 40
- Yossarian gazed at him with a mixture of reserved pity and contempt.
Chpt 42 *contempt = lack of respect