All 5 Uses of
pugnacious
in
Catch-22
- 'How should I know?' answered Chief White Halfoat, staggering inside the tent just then with a bottle of whiskey cradled in his arm and sitting himself down pugnaciously between the two of them.†
Chpt 5 *
- 'Who the hell says I can't?' he thundered pugnaciously in a voice loud enough to rattle the whole building.†
Chpt 21
- 'I can get killed flying them, too,' Dobbs answered pugnaciously in his rough, quavering, overwrought voice.†
Chpt 27
- He turned with surprise to face a stout, pugnacious colonel with a large head and mustache and a smooth, florid skin.†
Chpt 36
- One of the sitting men cursed pugnaciously and hurled a wine bottle at Yossarian when he turned to look up.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(pugnacious) quick to fight or argue