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
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 Charles Caldwell Dobie
‘Tell me to change back into Maurice,’ said Maurice who was quite worn out by his cattish experiences.
From The Magic World by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
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 Alice B. Emerson
