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

Angela hoped that her laugh was not cattish.

From The Port of Adventure by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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

Putting in his hand, he is dragging out bones, feathers, skeleton musk-rats, putrid frogs, promiscuous remnants of other quarries brought to the burrow by the mink, when a little cattish s-p-i-t! almost touches his hand.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.