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catty

/kat-ee/US // ˈkæt i //UK // (ˈkætɪ) //

斤斤计较,斤两,斤,斤斤计较的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    cat·ti·er, cat·ti·est.

    • : catlike; feline.
    • : slyly malicious; spiteful: a catty gossip.

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Examples

  • Glaser and the rest of the production team seemed determined to avoid making the women look stupid or catty.

  • Rip-and-reads of “Battle for the Soul” have grabbed anecdotes that make the participants look selfish or catty.

  • Catty, petty, and self-serving,” is how one of those way-right-of-center folk described Geithner to me.

  • Catty quips about style choices are met with irrational exuberance over over-hyped new designs.

  • At a local poker club catty corner from the Lenin statue, players were dismissive of the pro-Russia protestors.

  • I meet one for drinks at a hip Spanish restaurant catty corner from the European Square.

  • Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) and Nolan (Gabriel Mann) are as catty and delightful as ever, but the rest of the show feels tired.

  • She is a nice little girl though, is Catty—the double-distilled essence of good-nature.

  • Catty Clowrie watched them and the captain, and the game too, noting everything, and making no mistakes.

  • Catty Clowrie was standing in her own doorway, but Cherrie did not stop to speak, only nodded, and knocked at Mrs. Marsh's door.

  • Did Miss Catty Clowrie, standing unheeded by, with ears as sharp as lances, hear this very straightforward avowal?

  • Any skirmish in a women's organization is referred to women and their catty ways.