Definition of "cattish" [cat•tish]

• Catlike; in the manner of a cat (adjective)
• Stealthy (adjective)
• Sly and spiteful; marked by malice (adjective)

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• "But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on man for a subsistence, produces a kind of cattish affection which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she would about any man who fed and caressed her."
• "But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on a man for a subsistence, produces a kind of cattish affection, which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she would about any man who fed and caressed her. 71"
• "But that's merely the beginning of this ill-conceived, ill-timed and epically copy-cattish endeavor, from the cover - a clumsy, solipsistic shot of a woman in a WSJ paper dress (a strange and otherwise un-referenced homage to the 1960s) - to the head-scratching organizing principle of the TOC."