All 6 Uses of
elegant
in
Catch-22
- The food was elegant and expensive, and the aisles were overflowing with great streams of flushed and merry proprietors, all stout and balding.†
Chpt 16
- He couldn't find her again in the Allied officers' night club that evening or in the sweltering, burnished, hedonistic bedlam of the black-market restaurant with its vast bobbing wooden trays of elegant food and its chirping flock of bright and lovely girls.†
Chpt 16
- He waved back to everyone in elegant reciprocation and showered generous handfuls of foilcovered Hershey kisses to the rejoicing multitudes.†
Chpt 22
- The doctor stopped in his tracks with a look of elegant amazement and distaste, and the ward grew still.†
Chpt 27 *
- She sat on the sofa in a passive, phlegmatic stupor, her mouth open and all her clothing crumpled in a corner on the floor, and wondered how much longer they would sit around naked with her and make her say uncle in the elegant hotel suite to which Orr's old girl friend, giggling uncontrollably at Yossarian's and Dunbar's drunken antics, guided Nately and the other members of the motley rescue party.†
Chpt 33
- Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(elegant as in: an elegant gown) refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style