cattish
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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
"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
Mrs. Hetherington, whom the end of the voyage had left nervy and cross, said cattish things.
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
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
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