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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for catty

any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)

marked by or arising from malice

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On October 16, 1883, Catty and Maggie were charged with the murder of Thomas Higgins.
"Catty loved it and was really chuffed with that, and after everything he has done he is just a really down-to-earth guy - and that is why he will do well as a coach."
The story has something to do with Catty & Co., a conglomerate that controls 96.72 per cent of the world's GDP, but is secretly an ancient cat c ult.
The people he flattered and fawned over in Life were Worked over by the catty B-side of his "pleaser" social mode.
But between a cover story in Newsweek magazine on "gamma girls," (1) ("truly nice" adolescent girls are apparently so unique they require their own moniker), a section-front article in USA Today headlined "Caught in the Catty Corner" (2) and the release of such books as Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence (Crown Publishers, 2002), it's easy to assume that today's teenage girls navigate such an obstacle course of sex, cruelty and self-esteem issues it's miraculous any emerge with their physical and emotional health intact.
Discussing The Tragedie of Miriam, for instance, Catty calls the reader's attention to the meek and often dismissed handmaid, Graphina, as an eloquent speaker who retains her chastity by manipulating her lover with language.
Catty Amma coul;d take a real caning this week and a buy at 65 is attractive.
By JOCELYN CATTY. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press.
Dairy Farm believes there is room for a cash and catty in every Indian city with a population greater than 1 million.
She tries her best to be catty throughout the book, and at times she even succeeds in evincing a certain feline wit -- as in her devastating description of Luce spiriting sculptor Isamu Noguchi, chisel in hand, into her Manhattan apartment to touch up her marble bust after a secret nose job.
As Walter Goodman noted in a delightfully catty review in The New York Times, ABC news and its $8-million-dollar woman, under the guise of presenting a "news" magazine, simply turned over an entire hour of air time to the promotional department of Sony, which is reported to be spending $30 million to repair Jackson's image and flog his new, lackluster CD.
June Whitfield is still dispensing catty wisdom as Eddy's mother, joined by Jane Horrocks as ditzy Bubble.
I have never seen so many variations of sunglasses ever whether it's just the frames or the sunshades with tint or colour on the sides or all kinds of shapes and sizes and everything in trend like the catty shades or the normal round shapes or the boxy shapes.
LAST week's wallow in the nostalgia of the Rhondda Valleys drew a predictably fulsome response from our readers but only one - Bill Beese - could answer our query over the 'Catty and Doggy' game.