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

"We," said Harry, "give pussy something out of our plates all cooked and nice, and so I suppose she is a better cat, and less cattish."

From True Stories about Dogs and Cats by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot

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

Sort of cattish way of implying that the fair Olga could get along without any moon at all.

From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr