catty

Example Sentences

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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

The catty media site Gawker noted that corners of the internet like 4Chan could be expected to respond with heinous pranks, without realizing how vile the rhetoric of regular people was about to get.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 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

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

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