All 15 Uses of
bewilder
in
Catch-22
- Appleby retreated from Yossarian with a look of loathing bewilderment and sulked in silence until he was in the jeep with Havermeyer riding down the long, straight road to the briefing room, where Major Danby, the fidgeting group operations officer, was waiting to conduct the preliminary briefing with all the lead pilots, bombardiers and navigators.†
Chpt 5
- Major Major floundered bewilderedly from one embarrassing catastrophe to another.†
Chpt 9
- It was Captain Black who came with advice to Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren as they pitched about in their bewildering predicament.†
Chpt 11 *
- When he spun around in his bewilderment, Aarfy was grinning proudly from ear to ear like something inhuman as he held up a shattered paper map for Yossarian to see.†
Chpt 15
- Yossarian staggered backward out of range in a daze, clutching his stinging cheek with bewilderment.†
Chpt 16
- 'What the hell are you getting so upset about?' he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement.†
Chpt 18
- 'Peckem?' repeated General Dreedle, still squinting with bewilderment.†
Chpt 21
- Yossarian pulled back from Orr adamantly, gazing with some concern and bewilderment at Mt. Etna instead of Mt. Vesuvius and wondering what they were doing in Sicily instead of Naples as Orr kept entreating him in a tittering, stuttering, concupiscent turmoil to go along with him behind the scheming ten-year-old pimp to his two twelve-year-old virgin sisters who were not really virgins and not really sisters and who were really only twenty-eight.†
Chpt 22
- Nately was appalled and bewildered by the abominable old man's inability to perceive the enormity of his offence.†
Chpt 23
- Colonel Cathcart clawed and elbowed his way through the unruly, bewildered mass until he stood outside by himself.†
Chpt 24
- 'Guilty of what?' implored the chaplain, feeling more and more bewildered and not knowing which of the men to appeal to for mercy.†
Chpt 36
- 'What's the matter?' he screamed in stinging pain and bewilderment, flinging her away from him all the way across the room to the wall.†
Chpt 38
- Yossarian shouted at her in bewildered, furious protest.†
Chpt 39
- 'That's right,' said Colonel Korn, nodding, gratified immeasurably by Yossarian's guileless surprise and bewilderment.†
Chpt 40
- Major Danby demanded with alarm and bewilderment.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(bewilder) to confuse someone