cattish

Example Sentences

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Instead, we have the word “catty”—or, more obscurely, “cattish,” or “cat-witted”—to mean spiteful and small-minded.

From The New Yorker

She had very good hair but grey eyes, that gave her a cattish appearance.

From Project Gutenberg

I had a cattish desire to fight him and let him know his place.

From Project Gutenberg

I don’t like people who write about the stars, and then turn around and say mean, nasty, cattish little things just because they’re jealous.

From Project Gutenberg

His deviousness, clowning and attention-seeking have something fittingly and convincingly cattish about them.

From The Guardian