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

"And all their cattish gestures plainly spoke They thought the affair they'd come upon no joke."

From The Tapestry Room A Child's Romance by Crane, Walter

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)

Mrs. Hetherington, whom the end of the voyage had left nervy and cross, said cattish things.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora