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cattish

[kat-ish] / ˈkæt ɪʃ /


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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

She had adopted him as her guide and philosopher in art; gone about with him more, almost, than with that absurdly busy fellow Brett; until the cattish vicar's wife——!

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond

Bella was cattish, and she was jealous, too.

From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

"We," said Harry, "give pussy something out of our plates all cooked and nice, and so I suppose she is a better cat, and less cattish."

From True Stories about Dogs and Cats by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot