A cattish gleam of satisfaction flared in Miss Billingham's eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of Expectations]

Frank Rich being Frank Rich: viperous and cattish, with razor-sharp claws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Frank Rich, Clarence Thomas, and the Missouri Assistant Attorney General:] Reference

Or perhaps, "she amended, honestly," it's both true and cattish, but it's certainly true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Lensman]

If I come across as “cattish” or “close-minded”, it must be because I’m not very good at S&M.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Wants to Regulate Sex Businesses at cvillenews.com] Reference

She must have changed into a cattish phase now, for her eyes shone in the dim lights from the control panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Norby Chronicles]

At his office and at his boardinghouse the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]

It is the sly, cattish thrusts that are not forgiven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Comments] Reference

She struck down his hands, and protested with sudden, cattish energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bread-winners A Social Study] Reference

Never before had she known Cyrilla to say anything meddlesome or cattish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price She Paid] Reference

Mrs. Hetherington, whom the end of the voyage had left nervy and cross, said cattish things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captivity] Reference

If I wanted to sneak myself out of trouble with a fib, or be snappish to Father or cattish to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley] Reference

'Tell me to change back into Maurice,' said Maurice who was quite worn out by his cattish experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic World] Reference

We may perceive cats playing with the mice they hunt as cruel, but this is a human, not a cattish, response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Sometimes Stillman wondered whether she would really be cattish enough to betray his confidence and bring Claire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blood Red Dawn] Reference

Pachuca swung lightly out of the window and with a very cattish agility caught the sill with both hands and lowered himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Mesa] Reference

His sister came out, gave one glance at the river, became wild-cattish for the first time in her life, and sprang after her brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative] Reference

Senator Phipps of Colorado is also put into that class by Mr. Kent, and Senator James Couzens of Michigan is described as "fat cattish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Apple] Reference

He's a scream and has had to carry the harsh-judge role more than usual this series, with Brendan Cole being positively pussy-cattish - sans claws.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

No one need think they don't see when things are not as they should be, just because they're not cattish enough to let you know it, like a woman always does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Polly of Pebbly Pit] Reference

There's a small, biting spitefulness about it that's cattish. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Tembarom] Reference

"But who wouldn't be cattish with a fellow who has no more sense?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference

"I have been very selfish, and cattish, and inconsiderate, Mr. Smart.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool and His Money] Reference

"She's talking with the farmers 'wives for Jim and I went with her until the women were cattish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Jim] Reference

“I suppose,” went on Mrs. Fanton, with a side glance at the girl that was half caressing, half cattish, “that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daughter of Two Lands] Reference

Aggie's a bit cattish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letter of the Contract] Reference

A Kilkenny-cattish style of advice?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference

Bella was cattish, and she was jealous, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [When a Man Marries] Reference

Angela hoped that her laugh was not cattish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of Adventure] Reference

And all their cattish gestures plainly spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance] Reference

Abominably cattish of the widow not to ask me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond The Rocks A Love Story] Reference

(translated from the original cattish).    From Wordnik.com.  [Overheard on the Main Floor of the House of 'Pie] Reference

With cattish wantonness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference

A cattish little spitfire! ... ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rhodesian] Reference

"Angela, you are perfectly cattish at times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

"Of course," she said, really "cattish," "you girls would prefer something silly.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference