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

“As a woman, there’s a sense of cattiness in different hobbies that you join, and I could tell that this was just way different,” Aviles said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 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

“Mean Girls” — which came out when I was in the third grade — overtly criticizes the phenomenon through satire, but it still links cattiness to femaleness.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

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