All 5 Uses of
prudent
in
Catch-22
- She glanced about the room prudently to make certain there was nothing she had overlooked in the way of neatness and then drew back the coverlet and stretched herself out luxuriously with an expression of feline expectation.†
Chpt 16
- Among those officers of inferior rank toward whom Colonel Cathcart still deemed it prudent to show respect, he included Major — de Coverley, even though he did not want to and was not sure he even had to.†
Chpt 21
- …horror, the colonel lifted the phone to volunteer the group for Avignon and tried to kick him out of the officers' club again that very same night a moment before Yossarian rose up drunkenly, knocking over his chair, to start an avenging punch that made Nately call out his name and made Colonel Cathcart blanch and retreat prudently smack into General Dreedle, who shoved him off his bruised foot disgustedly and order him forward to kick the chaplain right back into the officers' club.†
Chpt 25
- He recognized Yossarian as the drunk who had accosted him roughly at the officers' club one night before the first mission to Bologna, and he swung his displeasure prudently to Dunbar.
Chpt 29 *prudently = with good sense and caution
- Yossarian recalled that he had no leave papers and moved prudently past the strange group toward the sound of muffled voices emanating from a distance inside the murky darkness ahead.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful