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See definition of cats paw on Dictionary.com
  • as insea breeze
  • as incat's-paw

synonyms for cats paw

  • cat's-paw
  • cooling breeze
  • ocean breeze
  • onshore breeze
  • chump
  • dupe
  • instrument
  • sap
  • stooge
  • sucker
  • tool
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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cats paw, such as: cat's-paw, cooling breeze, ocean breeze, and onshore breeze.
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How to use cats paw in a sentence

Now and again a cats-paw would ripple across the plain of water, but there were no clouds, there was no sight of land.
"THE GALLANT, GOOD RIOU", AND JACK RENTONLOUIS BECKE
And the American Legion began to function as a "cats paw" for the men behind the scenes.
THE CENTRALIA CONSPIRACYRALPH CHAPLIN
The touching of the pocket with the fingers reminded me of nothing so much as the motion of a cats paw in playing.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN, VOLUME 2ELIZABETH BISLAND
Youve made a cats-paw of that boy; youve dragged the sweetest and most innocent girl in the world into your filthy scheme.
THE BLACK STARJOHNSTON MCCULLEY
A few months later, Henry had discovered that Ferdinand and Maximilian were using him as a cats-paw.
TEN TUDOR STATESMENARTHUR D. INNES
But the brief dream of the old kings had been finally dissipated: Henry was going to be nobodys cats-paw.
TEN TUDOR STATESMENARTHUR D. INNES
Well, you could have blown me and Jonadab over with a cats-paw.
AINSLEE'S MAGAZINE, VOLUME 16, NO. 2, SEPTEMBER, 1905VARIOUS
There is more than a suspicion that he was used as a cats paw in a political movement.
THE WAY TO THE WESTEMERSON HOUGH
The shadow as of tempest hung in the air, but never a cats-paw did I see to blurr the rolling mirror of the ocean.
THE FROZEN PIRATEW. CLARK RUSSELL
It has allowed itself to be made a cats paw by the National Divorce League for its retrogressive policy.
BUCHANAN'S JOURNAL OF MAN, MAY 1887VARIOUS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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