catty1
/ˈkati
/adjective (cattier, cattiest)
1Deliberately hurtful in one’s remarks; spiteful: catty comments...
- Let joy raise you above negative comments, catty remarks or outright persecution.
- We have many friends and acquaintances with different political values, but these two are the only ones who feel the need to ruin a perfectly nice evening with snide and catty comments about people whom they know we support.
- Girls engage in catty behavior and nasty comments, judging each other on appearance and material possessions.
2Relating to cats; catlike: catty eyes...
- Here are some other uplifting things: a cycle ride in the sun, coffee in the garden, a sleepy-eyed hello from the cat, which summons up the energy to eat some catty lunch before going for another sleep.
Derivatives
cattily
/ adverb ...- She cattily told Weinstein she had heard that, in a bedroom scene, Charisse was wearing a padded negligee bra.
- Carolyn cattily says ‘I thought I was your lunch date.’
- ‘Look, Slick, you may think you're the king of thieves, but that doesn't mean anybody agrees with you,’ Macyn replied cattily.
cattiness
/ noun ...- What makes you and your friends any less bitchy and catty then the girls who's bitchiness and cattiness you talk about all the time?
- It's a moderately-interesting tale of bitchiness, cattiness and psychotic behaviour.
- Her strongest character traits are, in about this order, heroic courage; wrath; vengefulness; envy; and cattiness.
Rhymes
catty2
/ˈkati/noun South African informal
A catapult: on the way to school we took potshots at dogs with our catty
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