adjective
- resembling or characteristic of a cat
- spiteful or malicious in behavior
Usage: informal
Examples
- The dancer moved with cattish grace across the stage.
- Her cattish eyes gleamed in the moonlight.
- He made a cattish remark about her new haircut.
- The cattish way she smiled suggested she knew something we didn’t.
- With cattish stealth, she crept up behind him.
- Her cattish behavior at the meeting made everyone uncomfortable.