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catty

[kat-ee] / ˈkæt i /


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The Hulu show "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" followed the catty fallout from the revelation among a group of Utah-based TikTok influencers, and has so far run for multiple seasons.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Madariaga’s response was exquisitely catty, describing Morison’s biography of Columbus as “a most interesting Life from the yachtsman’s point of view.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Paul Feig’s flair for crowd-pleasers about catty women has been tilting from comedy to thriller ever since the cult success of 2018’s “A Simple Favor.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

Smilodon, the catty predator whose ancestors emerged in the early Miocene, will not smile on us again.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025

She’s not nearly as catty these days and is becoming a real friend.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

One cat can yield four to five catties.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2023

The company said it had accepted 860,000 catties of garlic in deals involving 30 homes.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2022

The garlic promotion attracted 852 visits and 30 transactions involving 860,000 catties of garlic during the 16 days it was available, the advertisement said.

From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2022

Not even ten catties of gold, say refugees from Changchun, can buy an air ticket from the dying northeastern capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spouse of the marquis of Chin Hsiang comes next, with no more than twenty catties a day.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly

The cat could be seen through a perspex dome in Schiffer's argyle-patterned backpack cat cattier - complete with plenty of air holes.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024

Ages 18 to 23, they have been the hit of "collections week," though cattier observers noted one or two faux pas on the runway.

From Time Magazine Archive

She can be cattier than a back fence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here are 16 more of the cattiest critical reactions from across the internet:

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2019

In 2009, the year that the first season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” was broadcast, the buzziest reality shows on television tended to be the most melodramatic and cattiest — “Survivor” or “The Hills.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2018

Rancic weighed in last and, per usual, delivered the group's cattiest remarks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2015

The liveliest, cattiest New York gossip now has shifted to the pages of Women's Wear Daily.

From Time Magazine Archive

An early feminist whose most famous play showed women at their cattiest, a formidable grande dame of high society who was one of its most caustic satirists, Luce made a career of eluding categories.

From Time Magazine Archive




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