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

"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

Abominably cattish of the widow not to ask me.

From Beyond The Rocks A Love Story by Glyn, Elinor

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