All 22 Uses
retort
in
Catch-22
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- Doc Daneeka retorted with annoyance.†
Chpt 5 *retorted = quickly replied
- 'I'd rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes,' Havermeyer retorted.†
Chpt 5
- 'If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?' ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen retorted.†
Chpt 6
- 'I'm talking about flagellation,' Lieutenant Engle retorted.†
Chpt 8
- 'And a very good idea it was, too,' retorted Colonel Korn, 'since it eliminated that superfluous major that's been giving you such an awful black eye as an administrator.†
Chpt 11
- 'The enemy,' retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, 'is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart.†
Chpt 12
- Doc Daneeka retorted with a sneer.†
Chpt 17
- 'It's not my business to save lives,' Doc Daneeka retorted sullenly.†
Chpt 17
- 'Because I'm a meningitis man, that's why, and not an acute-nephritis man,' retorted the colonel.†
Chpt 18
- 'I don't see why you have to shout at me,' Corporal Whitcomb retorted with an injured look.†
Chpt 20
- 'He thinks he knows everything,' Colonel Moodus would retort in a sulking tone to his own audience at the other end of the bar.†
Chpt 21retort = quickly reply
- 'You told us to go with them,' Yossarian retorted accusingly.†
Chpt 22retorted = quickly replied
- 'Because it's better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees,' Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty conviction.†
Chpt 23
- Milo retorted furiously.†
Chpt 24
- Nurse Cramer retorted.†
Chpt 26
- 'And I've got an official Army record here to prove it,' Major Sanderson retorted.†
Chpt 27
- 'I don't know anything about writing,' Colonel Scheisskopf retorted sullenly.†
Chpt 29
- 'Then you signed your name in somebody else's handwriting again,' the colonel retorted with a shrug.†
Chpt 36
- 'No, it's your fault for refusing to fly them,' Colonel Korn retorted.†
Chpt 40
- 'I haven't been doing any calculating,' Yossarian retorted.†
Chpt 40
- 'That's what that kind detective said before he decided to jab his thumb into my wound,' Yossarian retorted sarcastically.†
Chpt 42
- Major Danby started to retort with proud spirit and came to an abrupt stop, his half-opened jaw swinging closed dumbly.†
Chpt 42retort = quickly reply
Definitions:
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(1)
(retort as in: quick retort) a quick reply to a question or remark -- especially a witty or critical one
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)