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

The inevitable implied cattiness was the opposite of the kind of stories she wanted to see on-screen or experience in her own life.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2022

The CGI ears and tails have elicited some cattiness, but they’re twitchily intriguing rather than disturbing.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2020

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 Pedler, Margaret