All 6 Uses of
persecution
in
Catch-22
- But Aarfy was already back in the apartment when Yossarian arrived, and Yossarian gaped at him with that same sense of persecuted astonishment he had suffered that same morning over Bologna at his malign and cabalistic and irremovable presence in the nose of the plane.†
Chpt 16
- Everybody was persecuting him.†
Chpt 19 *
- He cursed himself for his gullibility and wished in panic for something like a mask or a pair of dark glasses and a false mustache to disguise him, or for a forceful, deep voice like Colonel Cathcart's and broad, muscular shoulders and biceps to enable him to step outside fearlessly and vanquish his malevolent persecutors with an overbearing authority and self-confidence that would make them all quail and slink away cravenly in repentance.†
Chpt 25
- You've got a bad persecution complex.†
Chpt 27
- Persecution depresses you.†
Chpt 27
- They were afraid of Yossarian and persecuted him incessantly with nagging generosity and with their exasperating insistence on doing small favors for him.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(persecution) very bad and unfair treatment of others -- often because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs