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How to pronounce cattiness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bitchiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness
Type of malevolence, malevolency, malice
Derivation catty

Examples of cattiness

cattiness
In a jealous act of cattiness, Katie Price describes her as looking like a heifer.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Is there now more cattiness than charm when it comes to meeting someone new?
From the smh.com.au
Tyra and her posse will cut the field to 13 before the cattiness resumes in New York.
From the kansas.com
She promises there will be no cattiness, no bickering and, best of all, no makeovers.
From the usatoday.com
And contrary to the stereotype, Low believes there is often less cattiness at girls'schools.
From the guardian.co.uk
So feel free to discount this appraisal as competitive cattiness.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Yet, Ichikawa's sensibility is radically different, reveling in his characters'dramatic cattiness.
From the theepochtimes.com
They taught us to award points for cattiness and fighting, to relish the moments of humiliation.
From the newsobserver.com
There's a lot of grinning cattiness at shamelessly easy targets.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
  • (catty) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)
  • (catty) bitchy: marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"
  • Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. It forms one of the oldest and most common means of sharing (unproven) facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information transmitted. ...
  • The quality of being catty; cattishness
  • (catty) A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as less than a kilogram; With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset; Resembling or characteristic of a cat
  • (catty) Chinese unit of weight; approx. 1.33 lb/0.7 kg
  • (Catty) (n.) female as described by a male to another male
  • (Catty) musical play. 1987. Libretto by Magdalena Eggleston