What's the difference between bitchy and catty?

Bitchy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other concerns about Wilson's behaviour were attributed by the nursery manager to "bitchy" members of staff, the report said.
  • (2) I still watch New Girl and I can’t stand Jess, so I can at least give wonderfully bitchy Gretchen a shot, if only in honor of the dearly departed B in Apartment 23.
  • (3) Texts in which she begged him not to kick her out or not to beat her up were just her being “bitchy” or “dramatic”.
  • (4) She is impossible to dislike and I confess that I tried yet in the occasionally bitchy world of books she is nicknamed Lady Gush.
  • (5) I speak, of course, about the rise of Bitchy Resting Face.
  • (6) The newly sacked Trierweiler was widely seen by the public as peremptory and mean, an impression reinforced by the dispatch of a bitchy tweet soon after Hollande became president, undermining her predecessor, Ségolène Royale.
  • (7) Confident women at work are still labeled "bossy" and "bitchy", to their own detriment – unless they can "turn it off" .
  • (8) One of its finest pleasures was the way it shed a revealing light on the camaraderie of female friendship, so often depicted as a passive-aggressive exchange of bitchiness.
  • (9) – but this is exactly why talking about feminist infighting is so difficult: it makes women sound like the bitchy babies that sexists have always suggested we are, incapable of being given any position of authority without throwing tampons at one another, and therefore best left in the kitchen.
  • (10) Even though they'd make really good bitchy girlfriends.
  • (11) Women aren’t confident; they’re hard or bitchy.
  • (12) In an interview with the Sunday Times and with the Independent on Sunday , the peer also lashed out at "bitchy" colleagues who questioned whether she was up to her job, suggesting that Cameron's inner circle did not understand those who had not gone to public school.
  • (13) It makes her cross when people complain that groups of women can be bitchy.
  • (14) Bitchiness about this abounds, with everybody insisting that somebody else should be paying him, but that he shouldn’t have to pay for anybody else.
  • (15) "They might not be bitches at all – they might just have faces that look bitchy," one of the films several narrators clucks sympathetically.
  • (16) However, it is understood that 3am.co.uk will take a different tack to the, at times, bitchy tone adopted by Hilton's site with a "fun attitude" that keeps in style of the original 3am column.
  • (17) Dappled apple trees and "perfect" lives riddled with curtain-twitching darknesses, great social humour, heartache, industrial-strength bitchiness and, at their best, plotlines that somehow managed to marry Twin Peaks to The Simpsons , and Marcia Cross as the ever-magnificent Bree.
  • (18) Conclave might well be set in a realm even more bitchy and anachronistic than that of the Palace of Westminster, but with its unbudging binaries – the cardinals are either liberal or not – and its talk of schism, not to mention the role pride and envy play in proceedings, it brings to mind nothing so much as Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party, which, as all the world knows, is shortly to announce the result of its very own election.
  • (19) Jessica Bennett , Executive Editor, Tumblr For me, the novelty of Lean In is that it put words to what I believe many women of my generation struggle with: that paralyzing sense of self-doubt, that insecurity, that fear of being perceived as too harsh (or, god forbid, bitchy) that causes us to keep our hands down instead of raising them (or, as Sandberg puts it, to 'lean back when we should be Leaning In').
  • (20) When I’m in an argument with someone, I can be very bitchy and very sarcastic,” she said at her trial for child cruelty in relation to a broken shoulder pathologists found Ellie had suffered.

Catty


Definition:

  • (n.) An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thomas Mann was catty about him behind his back, calling him second-rate; as well one writer might say of another whose sales and royalties outstrip one's own.
  • (2) It must have seemed a routine assignment for one of the Daily Mail's star columnists: a catty take on the death of Boyzone star Stephen Gately which pandered to the prejudices of its readers.
  • (3) She drops her voice to mimic the catty whispers: "'She doesn't know what she's talking about, silly woman, she must have been poorly advised.'"
  • (4) Now, it is possible that the Times is just being catty, implying something about the marriage – "Declaration of Independence", indeed – without having the goods or the guts to come right out and say it.
  • (5) Although the system did develop a rough measure of "cattiness", it struggled with variations in size, positioning, setting and complexity.
  • (6) "It stops there being any stories about bitchiness, cattiness, any kind of competition.
  • (7) The trend has been upwards, certainly since half-time at White Hart Lane last month, even if that particular afternoon had ended with his dismissal and that unpunished but catty scratch at Jan ­Vertonghen.
  • (8) Perpetual mean girl Madison Sinclair is as catty as ever, Principal Van Clemmons fondly remembers the chaos of Veronica’s detective hobby, and popular 09-ers Gia (Krysten Ritter) and Luke (Sam Huntington) are now a couple.
  • (9) The film is all scented frills, melodramatic flourishes, and catty snark.
  • (10) The substances in question were extracted from the cattie epiphysis and anterior hypothalamus by means of acetic acid extraction from acetone-dehydrated tissue and the following sedimentation of the substances by means of cooled acetone and lyophilization.
  • (11) 267, 6620-6627; Catty, P., Pfister, C., Bruckert, F., and Deterre, P. (1992) J. Biol.
  • (12) He seems to think he has the luxury of time on his side, enough time in which to reform the inherent cattiness of British politics.
  • (13) The real goal of his catty, three-page response, he says, was to embarrass a bureaucratic agency with humor – he pointed out its redaction of vital words defining the proper usage of Section 701 in its accusatory letter, and how it led the FBI to call Wikipedia's use of its seal "problematic".
  • (14) Where, I wonder, is her famous handbag, the £950 Mulberry number that made her jibe about Mrs May’s leather pants seem hypocritical as well as catty?
  • (15) That is for the sporting authorities.” The files - part of a hoard declassified by the Foreign Office on Wednesday - also include a catty portrait of Brian Vine, the late Daily Mail reporter who whisked Budd to Britain.
  • (16) Furthermore, unlike the odious Caroline Bingley, she is open and forthright about her romantic interest in men, rather than devious and catty.
  • (17) Drake's team settled on 17 words – cowy, catty and brothy among them – that "describe and differentiate the majority of flavours encountered in cheddar cheese".
  • (18) He was always very charming and gentlemanly, but also wary and kind of catty at the same time.