cattish

Example Sentences

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His deviousness, clowning and attention-seeking have something fittingly and convincingly cattish about them.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2011

Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus "that cold-blooded egotist," Telemachus "the priggish son who yet met his master-prig in Menelaus."

From Time Magazine Archive

But who wouldn’t be cattish with a fellow who has no more sense?

From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.

If only I could retaliate in kind, couldn't I be cattish?

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

Our English audience have been for some time returning to their cattish nature, of which some particular sounds from the gallery have given us sufficient warning.

From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)