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
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
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
