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
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Life, my friends," croaked the philosopher from his hollow tree, dropping the lids over his cattish eyes, "is a disease.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
I trust I am not unduly cattish, but I dearly would love to watch the expression on his face when he heard it.
From Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Pachuca swung lightly out of the window and with a very cattish agility caught the sill with both hands and lowered himself.
From Across the Mesa by Henry Clarence Pitz