Example Sentences

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Ursula has shades of Gellar’s famous characters — Buffy’s physical ferocity, Kathryn Merteuil’s ruthless cattiness, Daphne Blake’s affinity for mysterious games — but doesn’t play to one exclusively.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Walking the line between civility and cattiness is the key to Richards’ longevity on “Housewives,” says one of the show’s executive producers, Alex Baskin.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2021

“Mean Girls” — which came out when I was in the third grade — overtly criticizes the phenomenon through satire, but it still links cattiness to femaleness.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

Bands are second only to journalists in their instinctive cattiness towards rivals, and journalists don’t tend to go InterRailing with their professional rivals for months at a time.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2019

Mrs. Hilyard had laughed that low, pretty laugh of hers which was always free from the least suspicion of "cattiness."

From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret