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catty

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Adjective, Noun
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cat=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

cattyn. [Malay katī. See Caddy.].
     An East Indian Weight of 1\'a7 pounds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catty, adj. (cattier, cattiest)
1 sly, spiteful; deliberately hurtful in speech.
2 catlike.

Derivative
cattily adv. cattiness n.

THESAURUS

catty

abusive, active, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, brisk, calumniatory, calumnious, catlike, cattish, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despiteful, detractory, disparaging, evil, felid, feline, fretful, furtive, hateful, kittenish, leonine, libelous, lionlike, lively, malevolent, minimizing, nagging, naggy, nimble, peevish, pejorative, pettish, petulant, querulous, rancorous, resentful, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shrewish, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, sprightly, spry, tigerish, vicious, vilifying, vixenish, vixenly, volant, wicked, zippy

ROGET THESAURUS

catty

Detraction

N detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, sarcasm, cynicism, criticism (disapprobation), invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, detractor, detracting, defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory, catty, disparaging, libelous, scurrile, scurrilous, abusive, foul- spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed, slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, sarcastic, sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, cynical, critical, damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, another lie nailed to the counter, cut men's throats with whisperings, foul whisperings are abroad, soft-buzzing slander, virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.


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