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
Mrs. Hetherington, whom the end of the voyage had left nervy and cross, said cattish things.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
Putting in his hand, he is dragging out bones, feathers, skeleton musk-rats, putrid frogs, promiscuous remnants of other quarries brought to the burrow by the mink, when a little cattish s-p-i-t! almost touches his hand.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
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.
