as in malicious
having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it
a catty remark that served only to hurt their feelings
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Some of them included Anna Sawai, Liza Colón-Zayas and Hiroyuki Sanada making history with their wins; Candice Bergen making a catty J.D. Vance joke; and The West Wing, Happy Days and Saturday Night Live casts reuniting onstage.
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Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2024
The Perfect Couple also strangely follows Big Little Lies’ format of splicing catty police-interrogation sequences between actually important scenes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Expect things to get catty at Foxwoods’ Great Cedar Showroom.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
The costume design will be flashy, the dialogue will be catty, and runway and party scenes will provide plenty of shiny things to look at.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 24 May 2024
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Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2024
The Perfect Couple also strangely follows Big Little Lies’ format of splicing catty police-interrogation sequences between actually important scenes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Expect things to get catty at Foxwoods’ Great Cedar Showroom.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
The costume design will be flashy, the dialogue will be catty, and runway and party scenes will provide plenty of shiny things to look at.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 24 May 2024
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While conceding that standard phishing methods, those that typically require threat actors to craft malicious emails that are delivered to a wide audience, are relatively easy for email platforms to detect and block, that’s not the case with this phishless attack.Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Alec Baldwin sues New Mexico, claiming malicious prosecution.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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And having more thoughtful conversations doesn’t preclude the need sometimes to confront those who are needlessly cruel or organizations that benefit from such exploitation.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2025
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In recent months, the Justice Department and the state filed thousands of pages of new records in the lawsuit, including reports and sworn statements from pediatricians, scholars and others who describe Florida’s policies as archaic and cruel.Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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That’s when Evans, in a full sprint, blindsided Lattimore with a vicious hit in the back and knocked him to the ground.Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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Several fast-growing wildfires fueled by a vicious Southern California wind storm are devastating communities across the Los Angeles region, with homes being burned to the ground and tens of thousands of people evacuating to safety.Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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With Zuckerberg’s decision to rescind policies barring hateful speech, he’s made clear that distinction is worth the possibility of political clout come Inauguration Day.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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The net front is the nastiest place on an NHL rink.Chris Branch, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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The second season trailer, which dropped on Wednesday, sees the title character who is played by Amer, who co-created the series with Ramy Youssef, trying to get back into the U.S. from Mexico after becoming entangled with nasty coyotes at the end of the first season in 2022.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025
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During her 40-year-plus career, Delano also worked in such films as Ratboy (1986), A Mighty Wind (2003), The Wicker Man (2006) — as the bitchy Sister Beech — Miracle Mile (1988) and The Ladykillers (2004).Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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Is there a younger woman who says something bitchy and throws our MILF into a spiral?Rachel Handler, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024
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“Catty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catty. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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