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

I don’t like people who write about the stars, and then turn around and say mean, nasty, cattish little things just because they’re jealous.

From Jane Lends A Hand by Watkins, Shirley

Bella was cattish, and she was jealous, too.

From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Old Grizzly wouldn't be so cattish about sneaking up and laying low for us until the fire died down, or till one of us happened to step out of the circle of light!

From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth