catty
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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
Although the methods used to make Mr. Hawke look a foot shorter than he is are a bit odd, his performance is spot-on, from his comb-over to his attitude: chatty, catty, arrogant yet anxious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
In her video, Brown set her sights on multiple Daily Mail reporters and read aloud catty headlines including, “Why are Gen Zers like Millie Bobby Brown ageing so badly?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 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 average load is seventy or eighty catties, a catty equalling about one pound and a quarter.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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
She can be cattier than a back fence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
The liveliest, cattiest New York gossip now has shifted to the pages of Women's Wear Daily.
From Time Magazine Archive
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