cattiness

noun

Definition of cattinessnext
1
as in bitterness
biting sharpness of feeling or expression the cattiness of the commentary for the televised awards was neither nice nor necessary

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2
as in malice
the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm there's no reason for saying such hurtful things except sheer cattiness

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Recent Examples of cattiness But colleagues’ cattiness and her own insecurity dredge up traumatic memories and send her spiralling into bulimia. — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 12 June 2026 The twist is that Escola encourages the kind of desperate cattiness that the onstage Mary Todd Lincoln herself embodies. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026 While Mean Girls is technically a comedy, its depiction of girl-on-girl cattiness stings incredibly true. — Michelle Kung, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cattiness
  1. bitterness
  2. malice
  3. hostility
  4. venom
  5. severity
  6. hatred
  7. cruelty
Noun
  • Little united the Syrian rebels during the country’s civil war from 2011 to 2024 outside of their hatred of Assad, and Damascus has sought to cultivate this memory of bitterness to keep the country’s disparate groups together.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The tea supplies tannins and bitterness while maple and orange recreate that familiar balance of sweet, bitter and citrus.
    — Ryan Brennan August 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of bitterness
Noun
  • Takamura tasks Musashi with eliminating the malice that has spread around the city.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Epley points out that this tendency (homophily) is often driven by fear rather than malice.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of malice
Noun
  • The Soviet Union took them from Japan in the final days of World War II, and the dispute has kept the countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were already at loggerheads over Syria, with Saudi Arabia backing the post-Assad regime and the UAE sharing Israel’s hostility to it, and Yemen, where Saudi Arabia had just driven out Emirati proxies.
    — MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of hostility
Noun
  • Ultimately, the snakes posing the greatest danger are often not those with the strongest venom, but those most likely to encounter people far from adequate healthcare.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The venom is mildly toxic to mammals such as mice, and it is reported to only cause inflammation and skin discoloration in humans.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of venom
Noun
  • But researchers stress that the more concerning trends are the severity of the injuries and the fact that they’re especially pronounced among children.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The researchers found a relationship between the apparent covertness of the recording devices and the severity of the harassment.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of severity
Noun
  • Christian leaders, along with the mayor of Dearborn and the chief of police, came together Monday afternoon to send out a message of unity against hatred.
    — Heath Kalb, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Ungodlike thoughts and their outcomes are not negated just by trying not to think about evil, mistakes, disease, hatred, lack, sorrow, etc.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of hatred
Noun
  • In late 2024, Spitze pleaded guilty to several charges related to child pornography and animal cruelty, and had been awaiting sentencing since then.
    — Mike Levine, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Brown is charged with two counts of kidnapping and two counts of first-degree cruelty to children.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of cruelty

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