catty
adjective
catlike; feline.
cattily
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a word derived from
catty.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Lollobrigida, who often stoked their rivalry, would later cattily remark to Life: “We are as different as a fine race horse and a goat.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
The historian AJP Taylor said cattily that free treatment for venereal diseases was “the only innovation in ‘welfare’ directly attributable to the first world war”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2018
The luster of his brilliant performance on 9/11—and I don’t use the word performance cattily; I think it was brilliant—it lost its power.
From Slate ● May 7, 2018
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
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
