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

‘Tell me to change back into Maurice,’ said Maurice who was quite worn out by his cattish experiences.

From The Magic World by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

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

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 Jane Lends A Hand by Watkins, Shirley