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
Jaquetta used to call her a panther of the wilderness, but to my mind there was none of the purring cattish tenderness of the panther.
From Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
"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
Bella was cattish, and she was jealous, too.
From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
