All 11 Uses of
deliberate
in
Catch-22
- You wouldn't believe it, Yossarian,' he ruminated, raising his voice deliberately to bait Doc Daneeka, 'but this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.†
Chpt 5
- After a few seconds of solemn deliberation, he licked the tip of his pencil carefully and wrote under 'Black Eyes!†
Chpt 21
- It was enough that they were of like kind, and he knew it was only a matter of waiting discreetly for preferment until the right time, although it rotted Colonel Cathcart's self-esteem to observe that General Peckem never deliberately sought him out and that he labored no harder to impress Colonel Cathcart with his epigrams and erudition than he did to impress anyone else in earshot, even enlisted men.†
Chpt 21
- The flavor of disobedience was titillating, and Nately moaned deliberately again, the next time he could squeeze one in edgewise.†
Chpt 21
- 30 DUNBAR Yossarian no longer gave a damn where his bombs fell, although he did not go as far as Dunbar, who dropped his bombs hundreds of yards past the village and would face a court-martial if it could ever be shown he had done it deliberately.†
Chpt 30
- Major Danby confided that Group was incensed with all flight surgeons because of Dr. Stubbs, the bushy-haired, baggy-chinned, slovenly flight surgeon in Dunbar's squadron who was deliberately and defiantly brewing insidious dissension there by grounding all men with sixty missions on proper forms that were rejected by Group indignantly with orders restoring the confused pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners to combat duty.†
Chpt 31
- Are you deliberately repeating everything I say?†
Chpt 33
- Are you deliberately repeating everything I say?†
Chpt 33
- She agreed not to go to bed with Captain Black again or give him any more of Nately's money, but she would not budge an inch on her friendship with the ugly, ill-kempt, dissipated, filthy-minded old man, who witnessed Nately's flowering love affair with insulting derision and would not admit that Congress was the greatest deliberative body in the whole world.†
Chpt 33 *
- With deliberate amiability he said, 'Danby, how can you work along with people like Cathcart and Korn?†
Chpt 42
- He went to Sweden deliberately.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care