Sentence examples for one catty from inspiring English sources
One catty makes about 10 portions of shark's fin soup.
She documents, in sometimes numbing detail, a system that is even more puzzling than the fraternal one: cattier, meaner, more rigid and structured (with an exhausting number of required meetings and rituals), more obsessed with wardrobe and dieting.
But Ms. Felsenthal often relies on catty, unidentified sources.
The minute Ilsa and Victor arrived at Rick's Café Americana, and of course "checked-in" on Facebook, that one semi-catty female "pal" that stayed in touch with both Rick and Ilsa would inform Rick post-haste that Ilsa was in his establishment.
Back home, his loyal love (Sanaa Lathan) stays true blue, demonstrating that "current movies about upscale black characters have much more solid traditional values than ones about catty white teenagers" (Maslin).
No one was acting catty or judgmental.
Gabrielle Union and Kimberly Elise rattle off catty one-liners like they were schooled on Edward Albee's vicious Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf.
If someone says "Why are women so catty to one another," or any variation on that theme, do not repeat the unwanted accusation or assumption.
Directed by the actor Steve Buscemi, and based on an earlier film by the Dutch director Theo van Gogh (whose slaying by an Islamic extremist in 2004 inspired this remake), the movie is one of those chatty, catty, conceptual face-offs that are often best left to the stage and for which sports metaphors seem to have been invented.
If Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir are this brutally honest and catty on television, can you imagine what they are like when they think no one is listening?
