How to Use pussycat in a Sentence

pussycat

noun

• He looks tough, but he's really a pussycat.
• 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
• That is where Winslow the piano-playing pussycat tickles the ivories.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• Russia has much less to offer: If China is a tiger, Russia is a pussycat on stilts.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• There is also Maya’s big pet jaguar, Chiapa, who is a pussycat.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• Grace always wore that pussycat-bow shirt under those fawny beige little sweaters.
  — Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
• 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 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
• On the contrary, those extra pounds of pussycat created a feline frenzy.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This company has the right kind of creative energy and entertainment bonafides perfect for my ornery pussycat.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 16 June 2022
• Democracy is a tiger, not a pussycat.
  — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
• 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