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
Angela hoped that her laugh was not cattish.
From The Port of Adventure by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
She sprang backward with a cattish movement and caught up a gun that had been concealed in some bushes.
From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff
Pachuca swung lightly out of the window and with a very cattish agility caught the sill with both hands and lowered himself.
From Across the Mesa by Pitz, Henry Clarence
