(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.
Caustic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Caustical
(a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
(a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(2) He had severe standards and was caustic about people in public life and the way things were run.
(3) Fatale haemoptysis occurred as a result of circumferential caustic erosion to the right intermediate bronchus caused by a tablet of ferrous sulphate which remained in contact for 4 days.
(4) Four cases of combined hypopharyngeal and cervical esophageal stricture secondary to caustic ingestion are presented.
(5) Initial endoscopic examination showed moderate caustic esophagitis in all patients, and esophageal atony and poor distension were early roentgenographic observations.
(6) The stigma of having no brothers or sisters meant that any acting up was immediately dismissed with a caustic, “Well, he is an only child.” The subtext was that my parents had doted on me excessively, inflating my sense of importance.
(7) The caustic property of silver nitrate prompted a double-blind, controlled study of a possible causal relationship between use of the agent for prophylaxis against ophthalmic infection in the newborn and the subsequent development of nasolacrimal duct obstruction.
(8) The effects of accidental ingestion of a caustic detergent are studied in the report of 14 patients seen in the Hennepin County Medical Center.
(9) The success of conservative treatment has been higher in patients younger than 8 years of age, and in strictures due to caustics other than lye involving upper third portion and less than five cm of an esophageal segment.
(10) Despite the sometimes self-deprecating shtick – in sharp contrast to Putin's self-mythologising antics – there remains disquiet about what Navalny really represents, behind the caustic put-downs and cool persona.
(11) Caustic ingestion in adults must be viewed as a problem different from that of accidental ingestion in children.
(12) Exposure to caustic agents is a common problem, affecting thousands of individuals annually.
(13) This result counters the theory that a caustic response is a prerequisite for successful therapy.
(14) With both kinds of caustic agents the decrease of acid phosphatase activity was more striking than that of the alkaline phosphatase.
(15) Even so, Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell refused invitations to join the new government and Macleod published in the Spectator a caustic account of all the skullduggery.
(16) L'eau de Javel (bleaching agent with sodium hypochloride) was the most frequently encountered caustic substance (89%).
(17) The indication for esophageal replacement was atresia in 92 children and intractable stricture (peptic, caustic, or congenital) in 20.
(18) In order to examine the injuries and functional abnormalities of these sites following caustic ingestion, the records of The Johns Hopkins Swallowing Center were reviewed.
(19) Afterwards, in a sign that she has not yet lost her caustic side, Sobchak wrote in her Tatler column: "Bozhena equally suffers for the fate of her motherland as for the fate of her fur coats."
(20) Roy Keane’s most outspoken attack on Sir Alex Ferguson branched out into caustic criticisms of José Mourinho as he branded the Chelsea’s manager conduct “disgraceful” and explained why he refused to shake his hand towards the end of Aston Villa’s recent match at Stamford Bridge .