Sentence examples for cattish from inspiring English sources

Instead, we have the word "catty" — or, more obscurely, "cattish," or "cat-witted" — to mean spiteful and small-minded.

As desperate for affection as he is morbidly incapable of giving it, he stumbles towards oblivion with Mara Galeazzi's depraved Mary Vetsera, his incomprehending progress aided at every turn by the cattish, calculating Countess Larisch, brilliantly interpreted by Hikaru Kobayashi.

We may perceive cats playing with the mice they hunt as cruel, but this is a human, not a cattish, response.

His deviousness, clowning and attention-seeking have something fittingly and convincingly cattish about them.

He doesn't know she was a cat first of all, but begins to notice her cattish traits, such as purring when she is happy, rubbing against the fishmonger and hissing and scratching people she doesn't like.

Or we could match the nice wall and slats on the right, but that seems a bit copy-cattish (and insulting to the people on the left, for not aping their decision); not to mention pricy, given the cost of reclaimed London brick.