Adjective: catly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more catly |
| Superlative | most catly |
Sample Sentences
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Automatically, he scanned the premises for catly mischief, just as Nick Bamba scanned a vacated guest room for missing lightbulbs and dripping hot water faucets. [2003, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Went Up the Creek:]
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Patches rubbed his face on Roxbury's leg in a catly way. Patches stretched out and rolled over, and Whiskers tickled the kitten's neck, shoulders, and upper belly. “I'm their natural science teacher,” said Tiffany in a catly voice as she bent her knees to pet Patches without looking at him. [2004, Anne Hart, Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays:]
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In the last few weeks he had appended his column ^([sic]) with a few words of catly wisdom from Cool Koko's Almanac. [2004, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked Turkey:]
Adjectives inflected like catly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From cat + -ly. Compare catlike.