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 have been very selfish, and cattish, and inconsiderate, Mr. Smart.
From A Fool and His Money by McCutcheon, George Barr
But who wouldn’t be cattish with a fellow who has no more sense?
From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.
Never before had she known Cyrilla to say anything meddlesome or cattish.
From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham
