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

I trust I am not unduly cattish, but I dearly would love to watch the expression on his face when he heard it.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Old Grizzly wouldn't be so cattish about sneaking up and laying low for us until the fire died down, or till one of us happened to step out of the circle of light!

From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

Jaquetta used to call her a panther of the wilderness, but to my mind there was none of the purring cattish tenderness of the panther.

From Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative by Yonge, Charlotte Mary