as in malicious
having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it
a catty remark that served only to hurt their feelings
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Recent Examples of catty
Later, some vague barbs of catty competitiveness come out when the trio trade the stats and findings from their respective tests.
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Dan Heching, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
Paris is getting a sizzling new experience with the opening of the first French outpost of Benihana, the famed teppanyaki chain founded by the family of Steve Aoki, set catty-corner to the Louvre and the Palais-Royal gardens.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
After a few days of memes and catty jokes, some commentators expressed alarm that the backlash to Erivo’s statement had gone too far.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
The Perfect Couple also strangely follows Big Little Lies’ format of splicing catty police-interrogation sequences between actually important scenes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2024
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Dan Heching, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
Paris is getting a sizzling new experience with the opening of the first French outpost of Benihana, the famed teppanyaki chain founded by the family of Steve Aoki, set catty-corner to the Louvre and the Palais-Royal gardens.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
After a few days of memes and catty jokes, some commentators expressed alarm that the backlash to Erivo’s statement had gone too far.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
The Perfect Couple also strangely follows Big Little Lies’ format of splicing catty police-interrogation sequences between actually important scenes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catty
Adjective
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These emails might include malicious links designed to install malware or steal login information.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Time to update: Apple has discovered hackers exploiting an iOS bug via malicious media files.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Everybody else has no choice, really, other than to bring a cruel, narcissistic far-right leader to power.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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Jokes that didn’t land with the squad The kids in Bad Influence say the pranks were the most cruel.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This was a vicious weaponization of your government.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Shauna may be the vicious Antler Queen now, but Lottie also played a role in Mari’s death.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The antisemitic charge is a slur in its own right, tainting a broad range of institutions with a single hateful brush.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
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Prater, a graduate student in her first season with the Bulldogs, appeared to disable her comment section on some of her Instagram posts after facing an influx of hateful messages following the devastating injury Watkins suffered in the first half of their second round game.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Switching out a pump in a pit filled with raw sewage is nasty work.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
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The bear is back and things may stay nasty for the rest of 2025.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Jaclyn, Laurie, and Kate — immediately reverting back to the bitchy girls who ruled Nowhere High together — sniggered at the scene from behind designer sunnies.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2025
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Moore does some of her most deliciously bitchy work in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series.—
Katie Rife,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Catty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catty. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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