(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.
Vindictive
Definition:
(a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
(a.) Punitive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(2) And that's the thing that has gripped Russia and caught the attention of the rest of the world, too: that the Russian government has gone and arrested an idea and is prosecuting through the courts with a vindictiveness the Russian people haven't before seen.
(3) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
(4) "It has become apparent that the company's continued refusal to reinstate staff travel concessions for striking members and its vindictive disciplinary measures against Unite members raises new items of dispute," said Woodley and Simpson.
(5) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(6) Her fictional abandonment of her father does not come from vindictiveness.
(7) "The legal system has lost all sense of mercy and justice and it has been replaced with punitiveness and vindictiveness," Stinebrickner-Kauffman told Mail Online .
(8) Dr Rosemary Gillespie was the object of a “nasty, vindictive and sustained campaign of bullying” from her second day in the job at the UK’s biggest HIV charity, the tribunal heard.
(9) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(10) Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.
(11) To express guarded optimism about the Greek deal is not to condone the provocative arrogance of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis or the pointless vindictiveness of the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble .
(12) Smoldering resentment, chronic anger, self-centeredness, vindictiveness, and a constant feeling of being abused ultimately produce a miserable human being who, as well as being alienated from self, alienates those in the interpersonal sphere.
(13) Bullying does happen, but often it's thoughtless rather than vindictive.
(14) It’s a form of, I think incredibly dangerous and vindictive industrial sabotage.
(15) Yet she hopes that the series will lift the lid on the complex and difficult jobs, help to convey the sheer scale of their work, and demonstrate that current attitudes are "vindictive and unfair".
(16) But here are our friends, shouting along with the soap script, playing their parts as the vindictive husband, the philandering wife.
(17) Fear hinders us from transforming into a more collaborative and innovative institution.” But, for the moment, some employees say they are still concerned: “Instead of taking opportunity to change course, [management] are being vindictive,” said one staffer.
(18) Another person went to the gym at lunch time and couldn’t get out ... One member doesn’t have the right to revoke the pass of another member’s staff.” Chris Bryant, the former shadow leader of the House of Commons, said it was a terrible way to treat staff members, branding it petty and “vindictive, gratuitous nastiness”.
(19) Pullman tweeted: "It's one of the most disgusting, mean, vindictive acts of a barbaric government."
(20) Kinnock, who supported Miliband in the 2010 leadership contest, rallied to his support on Sunday, telling the Observer : "A hostile press which thought he was a soft target have not forgiven him for proving them wrong – and the vindictiveness will continue."