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

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

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher

She had very good hair but grey eyes, that gave her a cattish appearance.

From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Micheaux, Oscar

Bella was cattish, and she was jealous, too.

From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts