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Definition of cattiness in English English dictionary
- The quality of being catty; cattishness
Who had been tapped for the new society, and why, had become a topic of local gossip, conjecture, and even cattiness.
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- {i} nature of a cat; cunning, shrewdness, slyness
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- With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset
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- A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as less than a kilogram
Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty, according to size and quality.
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- If someone, especially a woman or girl, is being catty, they are being unpleasant and unkind. catty remarks. = bitchy. someone who is catty says unkind things about people
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- any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)
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- An East Indian Weight of 1⅓ pounds
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- marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"
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- Of a person or a remark, spiteful
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- A weight used in China
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- {s} catlike; sly, cunning; jealous, spiteful
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