All 14 Uses of
utter
in
Catch-22
- Yossarian decided not to utter another word.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Orr might tell, but Yossarian had decided not to utter another word.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- One of the surprising things always was the sense of calm and utter silence, broken only by the test rounds fired from the machine guns, by an occasional toneless, terse remark over the intercom, and, at last, by the sobering pronouncement of the bombardier in each plane that they were at the I.P. and about to turn toward the target.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- The best squadron in each wing won a yellow pennant on a pole that was utterly worthless.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1) *
- Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- He gasped in utter amazement at the fantastic sight of the twelve flights of planes organized calmly into exact formation.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- Yossarian gaped at his grinning, moon-faced navigator in utter shock and confusion.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Nately's father — and everyone else's father Nately had ever met — was dignified, wise and venerable; this old man was utterly repellent, and Nately plunged back into debate with him, determined to repudiate his vile logic and insinuations with an ambitious vengeance that would capture the attention of the bored, phlegmatic girl he had fallen so intensely in love with and win her admiration forever.†
Chpt 23 (definition 1)
- Doc Daneeka tended each moaning man that night with the same glum and profound and introverted grief he showed at the airfield the day of the Avignon mission when Yossarian climbed down the few steps of his plane naked, in a state of utter shock, with Snowden smeared abundantly all over his bare heels and toes, knees, arms and fingers, and pointed inside wordlessly toward where the young radio-gunner lay freezing to death on the floor beside the still younger tail-gunner who kept…†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- As a lead bombardier again, Yossarian had McWatt for a pilot, and that was one consolation, although he was still so utterly undefended.†
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
- They were utterly demoralized men of distinction.†
Chpt 33 (definition 1)
- Look at my own record,' Colonel Cathcart uttered a deprecatory laugh.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2) *
- His teeth chattered and his limbs felt utterly without strength.†
Chpt 36 (definition 1)
- Nately's death, in fact, almost killed Yossarian too, for when he broke the news to Nately's whore in Rome she uttered a piercing, heartbroken shriek and tried to stab him to death with a potato peeler.†
Chpt 38 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice