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

‘Tell me to change back into Maurice,’ said Maurice who was quite worn out by his cattish experiences.

From The Magic World by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

"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