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
If the play, with all its cattiness and cruelty, at times feels like “Mean Girls Goes to Camp,” it’s not always clear where the meanness is coming from.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Walking the line between civility and cattiness is the key to Richards’ longevity on “Housewives,” says one of the show’s executive producers, Alex Baskin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
Bands are second only to journalists in their instinctive cattiness towards rivals, and journalists don’t tend to go InterRailing with their professional rivals for months at a time.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2019
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 Margaret Pedler
