cattiness
Example Sentences
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Ursula has shades of Gellar’s famous characters — Buffy’s physical ferocity, Kathryn Merteuil’s ruthless cattiness, Daphne Blake’s affinity for mysterious games — but doesn’t play to one exclusively.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026
“As a woman, there’s a sense of cattiness in different hobbies that you join, and I could tell that this was just way different,” Aviles said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
“Mean Girls” — which came out when I was in the third grade — overtly criticizes the phenomenon through satire, but it still links cattiness to femaleness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
The CGI ears and tails have elicited some cattiness, but they’re twitchily intriguing rather than disturbing.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2020
Mrs. Hilyard had laughed that low, pretty laugh of hers which was always free from the least suspicion of "cattiness."
From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret
