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 trust I am not unduly cattish, but I dearly would love to watch the expression on his face when he heard it.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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.

"Don't be cattish, Lusilly," urged the young man.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher