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
Abominably cattish of the widow not to ask me.
From Beyond The Rocks A Love Story by Glyn, Elinor
Pachuca swung lightly out of the window and with a very cattish agility caught the sill with both hands and lowered himself.
From Across the Mesa by Pitz, Henry Clarence
Our English audience have been for some time returning to their cattish nature, of which some particular sounds from the gallery have given us sufficient warning.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
