All 14 Uses of
elated
in
Catch-22
- 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
- In fact, he had been so encouraged by what appeared to be a mass desertion from sacred responsibility that he had gone running outside in elation to carry the exciting news to ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen.†
Chpt 10
- Everyone was elated with this turn of events, most of all Colonel Cathcart, who was convinced he had won a feather in his cap.†
Chpt 13
- The wind strummed soothingly against the cylindrical panes of his windows, and he relaxed exultantly only until they picked up speed again and then turned McWatt left and plunged him right back down, noticing with a transitory spasm of elation the mushrooming clusters of flak leaping open high above him and back over his shoulder to the right, exactly where he could have been if he had not turned left and dived.†
Chpt 15
- 'Forty missions,' Hungry Joe announced readily in a voice lyrical with relief and elation.†
Chpt 16
- 'For how long?' mocked the profane old man with a gleam of malicious elation.†
Chpt 23
- But the business of government is business,' he remembered alertly, and continued with elation.†
Chpt 24
- 'No, I knew this valve wouldn't work if I left a part out,' Orr answered, glowing with cranberry-red elation because he had just duped Yossarian again.†
Chpt 28
- She would prattle nonsensically when they were striving hardest to think, and a pink flush of elation crept into her cheeks when they gave her more sharp raps on the arms and legs with their fists and told her to shut up.†
Chpt 30
- Yossarian dropped to his knees with a cold thrill of elation and aimed.†
Chpt 34
- With effervescent agility the chaplain ran through the whole gamut of orthodox immoralities, while Nately sat up in bed with flushed elation, astounded by the mad gang of companions of which he found himself the nucleus.†
Chpt 34
- 'What the hell do I care?' responded Captain Black with an indifferent shrug, and then gawked suddenly at Yossarian with surprise and with a crafty gleam of prying elation.†
Chpt 38
- Yossarian thumbed his nose at Major Danby and laughed with smug elation.
Chpt 42 *elation = high-spirited delight
- Tears of great elation were sparkling in his eyes, and Yossarian leaped out of bed with an incredulous yelp when he finally understood.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(elated) full of happiness and excitement