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cattishly

  • a word derived from cattish.
    cattish
    adjective
    catlike; feline.

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That's one reason why I treated you so cattishly last night; because you were so maddeningly good to look upon.

From The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory

It is only the cougar prowling cattishly through the under-brush perhaps still-hunting the hunter.

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

Everything that was cattishly feminine in me leaped to life at that look in the eyes of the man whom I detested, whom I had even feared.

From Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison

Adolphine never spoke cattishly of Bertha, in Mamma's presence; was amiable to Constance.

From Small Souls by Louis Couperus

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