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

Never before had she known Cyrilla to say anything meddlesome or cattish.

From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham

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)

Life, my friends," croaked the philosopher from his hollow tree, dropping the lids over his cattish eyes, "is a disease.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose