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
She sprang backward with a cattish movement and caught up a gun that had been concealed in some bushes.
From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson
"We," said Harry, "give pussy something out of our plates all cooked and nice, and so I suppose she is a better cat, and less cattish."
From True Stories about Dogs and Cats by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
She had very good hair but grey eyes, that gave her a cattish appearance.
From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Oscar Micheaux
