(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.
Kan
Definition:
(v. t.) To know; to ken.
(n.) See Khan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opposition parties were quick to exploit Maehara's departure, and vowed to step up pressure on Kan to resign or call an early general election.
(2) Following the recent announcement from Naoto Kan, the prime minister, that Japan would "start from scratch" with regard to future nuclear power expansion, we can be sure that there is plenty of paddling in Tokyo.
(3) After Hatoyama's resignation, just eight months after taking office, the Democrats are hoping that Kan's arrival will herald a period of stability and boost their flagging fortunes in time for the upper house elections.
(4) The Mycotrim Triphasic flask system (Irvine Scientific, Irvine, Calif.) was compared with a system composed of Mycotrim GU broth (Irvine Scientific) and A7 or A8 agar (Remel, Lenexa, Kans.)
(5) On Friday Kan apologised for dithering over the tests, which will be modelled on those being conducted on reactors in European Union member states.
(6) Of the leading candidates, Maehara is closest to Kan on energy policy, saying Japan should phase out nuclear power over the next 20 years.
(7) Measurable amounts of choline acetyltransferase were also detected in SMS-KAN and SMS-KANR.
(8) In fact, 30% of the oxine complex and possibly more KAN-322 appears to partition in the intracellular parasite itself.
(9) The positions of neo-2, nea-1, and kan-2 are uncertain, although they are located in this region to the right of cysA14.
(10) KAN concentrations in perilymph were unaffected by treatment with EA.
(11) In May, the then prime minister, Naoto Kan, ordered the killing of livestock by lethal injection after radiation made them commercially worthless.
(12) Although he survived the motion, Kan faces a difficult few months, during which he is expected to struggle to reach deals on emergency budgets in a deeply divided parliament, and to introduce a controversial tax rise.
(13) The delta fol::kan mutation is stable in E. coli K549 [thyA polA12 (Ts)] and can be successfully transduced to other E. coli strains providing they have mutations in their thymidylate synthetase (thyA) genes.
(14) For the final 5 y, a new pattern (AmpKanStrSulTetTm [Kan = kanamycin]) was spread throughout the country by two trimethoprim-resistant clones.
(15) Thus, the largest ORF was likely to represent the kan gene.
(16) The current parliamentary session is due to end on 22 June, but the Kan administration is pushing to extend it in the hope of passing the compensation package, as well as an emergency budget to fund post-tsunami reconstruction.
(17) The sisA gene was compared to the previously reported Micromonospora purpurea Kan-Gen (kanamycin-gentamicin)-resistance gene.
(18) The panel was also critical of Naoto Kan, the prime minister at the time of the accident, whose "direct intervention" in the early days of the crisis had caused confusion in the chain of command and wasted valuable time.
(19) One stx::Tn-mini-kan transposon mutation was transferred by P1 transduction from this E. coli Stx- mutant to an E. coli K-12 Hfr strain and in turn transferred by conjugation to the original S. dysenteriae 1 strain plus two others.
(20) According to the Nikkei poll, voters would prefer Kan's Democratic party of Japan (DPJ) administration to co-operate with the LDP to address the myriad economic and social issues confronting Japan .