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

In the case of the latter, the studio found his dialogue did not meet the standard for cattiness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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