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catty

How to use catty in a sentence

Glaser and the rest of the production team seemed determined to avoid making the women look stupid or catty.

Rip-and-reads of “Battle for the Soul” have grabbed anecdotes that make the participants look selfish or catty.

She is a nice little girl though, is Catty—the double-distilled essence of good-nature.

A CHANGED HEARTMAY AGNES FLEMING

Catty Clowrie watched them and the captain, and the game too, noting everything, and making no mistakes.

A CHANGED HEARTMAY AGNES FLEMING

Catty Clowrie was standing in her own doorway, but Cherrie did not stop to speak, only nodded, and knocked at Mrs. Marsh's door.

A CHANGED HEARTMAY AGNES FLEMING

Did Miss Catty Clowrie, standing unheeded by, with ears as sharp as lances, hear this very straightforward avowal?

A CHANGED HEARTMAY AGNES FLEMING

Any skirmish in a women's organization is referred to women and their catty ways.

In the rest of the volume, where Mr. Catty does not take himself quite so seriously, there are some rather pleasing things.

REVIEWSOSCAR WILDE

Don't bore him with your fight with the grocer or the catty things Mrs. X said at bridge or afternoon tea.

The average load is seventy or eighty catties, a catty equalling about one pound and a quarter.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985