Example Sentences

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But I didn’t focus that much on that, because there was also always something else to examine, closely and cattily, in the images of Hicks.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2020

In Iyer’s afternoon talk Thursday, the elegant, soft-spoken 45-year-old pianist and Harvard professor cattily noted that he found music critics to be homogenous, no doubt a term of some disparagement for this multitasker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2017

But in barely the next breath, he cattily introduces Down in Splendour “for all you grandmas out there”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2017

The British novelist Beryl Bainbridge had a lifelong fascination with tragedy — what she called “an interest in death” and what one reviewer cattily summarized as “the Beryl Bainbridge school of anguished women’s fiction.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2016

A bit too tremendous, he noted cattily, at least in the case of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson