All 3 Uses of
perceptive
in
Catch-22
- Colonel Cathcart felt perceptive enough to realize that visible signals of recognition were never necessary between sophisticated, self-assured people like himself and General Peckem who could warm to each other from a distance with innate mutual understanding.†
Chpt 21
- He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.†
Chpt 23 *
- He was a perceptive, graceful, sophisticated man who was sensitive to everyone's weaknesses but his own and found everyone absurd but himself.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(perceptive) to be better at noticing or realizing things than most people