The word "catty" is correct and usually used in written English.
It is an adjective generally used to describe a type of behavior that is mean or overly competitive. For example: "The girls in my office are always making catty comments about each other."
Who – unless you were an Observer journalist and the victim of one of her notoriously unflattering by-line pictures – would not want their portrait taken by Jane Bown, even at the risk of 1,500 catty words by me?
Goffin and King had already written two major hits for the Cookies – the masochistic Chains (covered by the Beatles), and their gum-chewing, catty Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby ("you better shut your mouth!").
Least likely to: Be catty.
He can be catty but is preternaturally outgoing.
In a notably catty column, Maureen Dowd described her colleague as a "woman of mass destruction"—a mild rebuke compared with what Times people say in private.This should serve as a powerful warning to the Republicans.
Their hair, above all Hillary Clinton's, is more analysed and yet they are not supposed to bring it up, lest they seem petty or catty.
"It is amazing how history accelerates," was the catty remark of a prominent defector from the Brotherhood.
Perhaps the world is simply not yet ready for him, still content to listen to the inane post-50s ditties produced by his more successful friends Jim and Jean (played by an amusingly witless Justin Timberlake and a catty Carey Mulligan).
She subsequently took a role as a catty rival of Jennifer Aniston's character in the romantic comedy Just Go with It (2011).
Ah yes... ...... before adding, with all the catty wit at which his compatriots excel, ".
If men disagree it will be confrontational but if women do it it tends to be portrayed as quite catty and actually it's not, you know what it's a couple of girls having a disagreement.
