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

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

Old Grizzly wouldn't be so cattish about sneaking up and laying low for us until the fire died down, or till one of us happened to step out of the circle of light!

From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

"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.