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

Bella was cattish, and she was jealous, too.

From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

"Of course," she said, really "cattish," "you girls would prefer something silly."

From The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Morrison, Gertrude W.

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