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Quote for the Day – Joseph Heller

“It was the despair of Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s life to be chained to a woman who was incapable of looking beyond her own dirty, sexual desires to the titanic struggles for the unattainable in which noble man could become heroically engaged.

‘Why don’t you ever whip me?’ she pouted one night.

‘Because I haven’t the time,’ he snapped at her impatiently. ‘I haven’t the time. Don’t you know there’s a parade going on?’”  ~~ From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Word of the Day – Prig

  • Noun: Prig
  • Adjective: Priggish
    1. one who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech or manners) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree
    2. a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
  • Synonyms:
    1. prude
    2. puritan
    3. killjoy
    4. goody-goody
  • Usage:

“There was his wonderful, desirable life-rapidity, the rare quality of an utterly desirable man: and there was at the same time this ridiculous, mean effacement into a Salvator Mundi and a Sunday-school teacher, a prig of the stiffest type.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

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Word of the Day – Feckless

  • Adjective: Feckless
  1. Having or resulting from a week character or nature
  2. irresponsible

 

  • Synonyms:
  1. Useless
  2. Worthless
  3. Incompetent
  4. Inept
  5. Good-for-nothing
  • Usage:

‘On Saturday, former Arkansas governor Mr. Huckabee described Mr. Obama’s foreign policy as “the most feckless in American history” and said the deal with Iran was “idiotic”.’

  • Encountered:feckless

BBC news article: Obama attacks Mike Huckabee over Israel ‘oven’ remarks

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Word of the Day – Churlish

  • Adjective: Churlish
    1. of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl
    2. marked by a lack of civility or graciousness
    3. difficult to work with or deal with
  • Synonyms:
    1. vulgar
    2. surly
    3. intractable
    4. rude
    5. ill-mannered
    6. ill-bred
    7. uncivil
  • Usage:

“’Perhaps,’ he said. ‘I don’t WANT her to furnish the rooms here—and I don’t keep her hanging on. Only, I needn’t be churlish to her, need I? At any rate, I shall have to go down and see them now. You’ll come, won’t you?’”

  • Encountered:

While reading Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

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