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 Dobie, Charles Caldwell

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.

"And all their cattish gestures plainly spoke They thought the affair they'd come upon no joke."

From The Tapestry Room A Child's Romance by Crane, Walter