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

Life, my friends," croaked the philosopher from his hollow tree, dropping the lids over his cattish eyes, "is a disease.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

"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 have been very selfish, and cattish, and inconsiderate, Mr. Smart.

From A Fool and His Money by McCutcheon, George Barr