How to Use pussycat in a Sentence

pussycat

noun
  • He looks tough, but he's really a pussycat.
  • Democracy is a tiger, not a pussycat.
    — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Alas, in the urban jungle, this baby proved to be a pussycat, not a tiger.
    — G. Gordon Liddy, Car and Driver, 30 Sep. 2020
  • An oversized bow once affixed to a bustle would be moved to the neck, pussycat style.
    — Piczo, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Grace always wore that pussycat-bow shirt under those fawny beige little sweaters.
    — Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That is where Winslow the piano-playing pussycat tickles the ivories.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • There is also Maya’s big pet jaguar, Chiapa, who is a pussycat.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Compared to the truly hateful male drivers that scream at her on the road all day, however, the dude is a pussycat.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
  • On the contrary, those extra pounds of pussycat created a feline frenzy.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Joining the two this year is a 5-foot pussycat, which comes poised to pounce in a crouching position with adjustable glowing eyes.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Becoming a pussycat has confirmed to me that the first step in true success is persistence and relentless vision.
    — Asha Bromfield, Seventeen, 11 Dec. 2017
  • This company has the right kind of creative energy and entertainment bonafides perfect for my ornery pussycat.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 16 June 2022
  • But a recent study shows that a single spritz of oxytocin…a hormone known to promote social bonding…renders even the most ornery alpha a total pussycat.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The popular pussycat is currently on a press tour in New York, which is just the latest of many business endeavors.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
  • In honor of Beautycon, Chopra Jonas went all out for the occasion, wearing a sheer black top with a pussycat bow, a white blazer, and a matching pair of pants.
    — Abby Stern, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The book’s events—which track the elderly, prosperous, stingy Ebenezer Scrooge’s psychic transformation from grouchy bear to purring pussycat—unfold in the course of one night.
    — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Oh, and there’s also the plot following a community of junkyard pussycats competing in a talent show to decide who is allowed to die and be reborn in the Heaviside Layer — cat heaven.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
  • Japan’s tiny Ainoshima island is a pussycat paradise, and its furry inhabitants are trying to woo the singer with a special invitation to visit during his October tour to the country.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • When playing Tony, though, Gandolfini underwent an awe-inspiring facial and bodily transformation; the lovable pussycat turned into a ruthless and philandering gangster.
    — James Andrew Miller, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021

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