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)

"Don't be cattish, Lusilly," urged the young man.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher

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

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