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

Abominably cattish of the widow not to ask me.

From Beyond The Rocks A Love Story by Glyn, Elinor

Angela hoped that her laugh was not cattish.

From The Port of Adventure by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Mrs. Hetherington, whom the end of the voyage had left nervy and cross, said cattish things.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora