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

Sort of cattish way of implying that the fair Olga could get along without any moon at all.

From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr

But who wouldn’t be cattish with a fellow who has no more sense?

From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.

Angela hoped that her laugh was not cattish.

From The Port of Adventure by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)