All 6 Uses of
mirth
in
Catch-22
- Luciana fled mirthfully along the sidewalk in her high white wedgies, pulling Yossarian along in tow with the same lusty and ingenuous zeal she had displayed in the dance hall the night before and at every moment since.†
Chpt 16
- The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.†
Chpt 23
- He could almost see them waiting on the other side of the canvas wall, bunched up expectantly like a pack of greedy, gloating omnivorous beasts of prey, ready with their barbaric mirth and jeers to pounce on him brutally the moment he reappeared.†
Chpt 25 *
- Orr gazed up at Yossarian through the corners of his eyes with a look of pointed mirth.†
Chpt 28
- The deep black grooves isolating his square chin from his jowls were bent again in a kind of jeering and reprehensible mirth.†
Chpt 40
- He listened with secret, egotistical mirth to the husky breathing of the two doctors.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(mirth) fun and laughter