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