Definition of Cattiness

1. Noun. Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty.

Exact synonyms: Bitchiness, Nastiness, Spite, Spitefulness
Generic synonyms: Malevolence, Malevolency, Malice
Derivative terms: Bitchy, Catty, Nasty, Nasty, Spite, Spiteful

Definition of Cattiness

1. Noun. The quality of being catty; cattishness ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cattiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cattiness

cattalo
cattaloes
cattalos
catted
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cattelo
catteries
cattery
cattie
cattier
cattierite
catties
cattiest
cattiite
cattily
cattiness (current term)
cattinesses
catting
cattish
cattishly
cattishness
cattitude
cattle
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cattle-prod
cattle beast
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cattle breeding
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Literary usage of Cattiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Marriage as a Trade by Cicely Mary Hamilton (1909)
"evitable, and incorrigible " cattiness " being a comfortable article of the masculine faith. The practice, it seems to me, can be explained without having ..."

2. The Clintons: And Others by Archibald Marshall (1919)
"This looked like mere " cattiness." Margaret Platter's face hardened as she said: " You at least must know why. If he has forgotten what I said, ..."

3. Girlhood and Character by Mary Eliza Moxcey (1916)
"... of whatever outward differences in station; one by which all personal pettiness and "cattiness," all insincerity and meanness of motive, "will, ..."

4. James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers by Frank Edward Manuel (2004)
"Who had been tapped for the new society, and why, had become a topic of local gossip, conjecture, and even cattiness. In a letter to die Reverend Jeremy ..."

5. Metaphysics: A Study in First Principles by Borden Parker Bowne (1882)
"Why should a given sensation result in the thought of a cat, and another in the thought of a dog, unless there be an original cattiness in one, ..."

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