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Meanings of cattish in inglês

Marked by or arising from malice.

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Examples for "catty"
Examples for "catty"
1
The usually mild-mannered Tánaiste became very catty with his former junior minister.
The Irish Times
2
Waterworks is situated catty-corner from the borough hall and the police station.
Robin and ruby
3
Eddie Garcia sat catty-corner from her, on her right, smiling and nodding.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
4
Gretchen glanced sharply at her aunt, who had been uncharacteristically catty lately.
Dolly departed
5
I couldn't have them looking at me with their catty, curious eyes.
Youth Challenges
1
I regret it immediately, because being bitchy isn't going to help anything.
The nobodies album
2
If she was really honest, those Ivy kids were kind of... bitchy.
Stunning
3
Big Brother has been in a bitchy mood ever since Ange-a-licious left.
News.com.au
4
Maybe it's her idea of a joke...maybe she's just being bitchy.
One night stands & lost weekends
5
I was sullen and bitchy about it at first, but then something changed.
Stars rain down
Usage of cattish in inglês
1
Never before had she known Cyrilla to say anything meddlesome or cattish.
The Price She Paid
2
I have been very selfish, and cattish, and inconsiderate, Mr. Smart.
A Fool and His Money
3
There's a small, biting spitefulness about it that's cattish.
T. Tembarom
4
Mrs. Hetherington, whom the end of the voyage had left nervy and cross, said cattish things.
Captivity
5
Angela hoped that her laugh was not cattish.
The Port of Adventure
6
Bella was cattish, and she was jealous, too.
When a Man Marries
7
She had to take the cattish route.
Sister Mine
8
Sort of cattish way of implying that the fair Olga could get along without any moon at all.
West Wind Drift
9
Still, it was cattish of me.
Dear Brutus
10
She's talking with the farmers' wives for Jim and I went with her until the women were cattish.
Still Jim
11
She sprang backward with a cattish movement and caught up a gun that had been concealed in some bushes.
The Rim of the Desert
12
John Garcia was trading two strings of fish, a four-pound cattish and small bass on one, warmouth perch and bream on the other.
Alas, Babylon
13
His sister came out, gave one glance at the river, became wild-cattish for the first time in her life, and sprang after her brother.
The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
14
Jaquetta used to call her a panther of the wilderness, but to my mind there was none of the purring cattish tenderness of the panther.
Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative
15
"Of course," she said, really "cattish," "you girls would prefer something silly."
The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross / Or, Amateur The...
16
"She can make it down again." Yoplait, purring, watched Butter with a cattish lack of concern.
Sister Mine
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