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

‘Tell me to change back into Maurice,’ said Maurice who was quite worn out by his cattish experiences.

From The Magic World by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

She sprang backward with a cattish movement and caught up a gun that had been concealed in some bushes.

From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff

Sometimes Stillman wondered whether she would really be cattish enough to betray his confidence and bring Claire Robson crashing down under the weight of the questionable position into which his indiscretion had forced her.

From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell