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cattley guava |
cattleya |
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catty
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| catullus
| catwalk
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun catty has 1 sense
- catty(n = noun.quantity) cattie - any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams); Array is a kind of weight, weight unit
Adjective catty has 1 sense
- catty(s = adj.all) bitchy, cattish - marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark" Derived forms noun cat3, noun cattiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
catty, n. [Malay katī. See Caddy.].
An East Indian Weight of 1\'a7 pounds. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
catty, adj. (cattier, cattiest)
1 sly, spiteful; deliberately hurtful in speech.
2 catlike.
1 sly, spiteful; deliberately hurtful in speech.
2 catlike.
Derivative
cattily adv. cattiness n.
THESAURUS
catty
abusive, active, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, brisk, calumniatory, calumnious, catlike, cattish, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despiteful, detractory, disparaging, evil, felid, feline, fretful, furtive, hateful, kittenish, leonine, libelous, lionlike, lively, malevolent, minimizing, nagging, naggy, nimble, peevish, pejorative, pettish, petulant, querulous, rancorous, resentful, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shrewish, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, sprightly, spry, tigerish, vicious, vilifying, vixenish, vixenly, volant, wicked, zippyROGET THESAURUS
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Detraction
N detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, sarcasm, cynicism, criticism (disapprobation), invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, detractor, detracting, defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory, catty, disparaging, libelous, scurrile, scurrilous, abusive, foul- spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed, slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, sarcastic, sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, cynical, critical, damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, another lie nailed to the counter, cut men's throats with whisperings, foul whisperings are abroad, soft-buzzing slander, virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
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