Sentence examples for in catty from inspiring English sources

The ladies should be a little spooky, true, but also silly, especially when they engage in catty competition over the handsome Tamino.

Jones' mother released her stress in catty asides and frequent hysterical outbursts that young Malcolm learned to read like oncoming weather.

Another article, published by Psychology Today, writer Lisa Firestone Ph.D. relays the story of a friend who engaged in catty behavior.

The reaction was started by addition of 1 μM [γ-P]-ATP (50 500 μCi nmol−1) and the sample treated as described in Catty et al. [ 29].

Unlike the characters seen in "Bridesmaids," the three maids-of-dishonor in "Bachelorette" are unapologetically flawed, catty and brazen, occasionally to the point of being downright unlikable.

"It fulfills a stereotype that women in relation to other women are catty.

Worried that a woman in the White House would have careening mood swings often spurred by catty arguments?

But if you bear these limitations in mind and take each anecdote in the catty, cautionary spirit in which it is intended, Haines's story of minor stardom is as entertaining as Spinal Tap, complete with obsequious local sales reps, record-company bosses who cultivate affectations as you would a spider plant, and an unwelcome intervention by persons of diminished stature.

Don't be catty.

Be cat like not catty.

Now I don't mean this in a catty way, just as an observation in light of the advertising: not one of the thirty women there had a good figure.