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 have been very selfish, and cattish, and inconsiderate, Mr. Smart.

From A Fool and His Money by McCutcheon, George Barr

She sprang backward with a cattish movement and caught up a gun that had been concealed in some bushes.

From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff

Mrs. Hetherington, whom the end of the voyage had left nervy and cross, said cattish things.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora