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

If only I could retaliate in kind, couldn't I be cattish?

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

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)

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