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- noun The quality of being
catty ;cattishness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
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Examples
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February 4th, 2010 at 12: 57 pm tombaker says: cattiness is not not a virtue, jwest, no matter how much ann coulter is devoted to it.
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That sort of cattiness is entirely unhelpful and, if I thought that the nasty reviewer couldn’t do any better, I’d just ban him altogether.
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I don't go in much for junior high school cattiness, which is why I ignored
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A third of the men in his study said they learned positive things from female friendships, but 25% had a negative impression of women as friends, citing issues such as "cattiness" and "too much drama."
Friendship for Guys (No Tears!) Jeffrey Zaslow 2010
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A third of the men in his study said they learned positive things from female friendships, but 25% had a negative impression of women as friends, citing issues such as "cattiness" and "too much drama."
Friendship for Guys (No Tears!) Jeffrey Zaslow 2010
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A third of the men in his study said they learned positive things from female friendships, but 25% had a negative impression of women as friends, citing issues such as "cattiness" and "too much drama."
Friendship for Guys (No Tears!) Jeffrey Zaslow 2010
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For everyone claiming that there is an inherent difference most have implied "cattiness" in the way women wield power,. . .
"No single incident that soured their relationship... it was a series of small irritations..." Ann Althouse 2006
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For everyone claiming that there is an inherent difference most have implied "cattiness" in the way women wield power, please provide an illustrative example from Condi Rice.
"No single incident that soured their relationship... it was a series of small irritations..." Ann Althouse 2006
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For everyone claiming that there is an inherent difference most have implied "cattiness" in the way women wield power, please provide an illustrative example from Condi Rice.
"No single incident that soured their relationship... it was a series of small irritations..." Ann Althouse 2006
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Researchers have thus far been unable to remove a certain "cattiness" gene from her personality that makes her cheerfully hostile to females.
Destructoid Brad Nicholson 2010
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