How To Use Catty In A Sentence

Or buried paleosols with the A horizons cattywampus. Fault Line
_Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
Foreign exchange deposit bargain is 42 stir thousand catty develop a financial product.
Some great new players and the captainship of Catty lifting the team no end, thank heavens. RIP Fatboy, Blogger TV & stuff
[_CATTY sighs and groans, striking the back of one hand reiteratedly into the palm of the other -- rises -- beats the devil's tattoo as she stands -- then claps her hands again. Tales and Novels — Volume 08

He might sound like a motormouth, he might sounds scatty and a little out of focus.
After each catty little spat, we cut to another uneventful rehearsal scene where boys and girls with asexual physiques pirouette weightlessly about the rehearsal room.
His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
She was the fighter in our group; she could make a tough girl cry with her endless barrage of snotty remarks and catty comebacks.
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They are counterweighted by moments of ache (Wayne's abuse, Margene's break-down at her old job), humor (Nicki's catty asides), and tenderness. Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1
His folks bought them a house catty-corner from my mom's. The Prince of Beers
The book is an acquired taste, but on stage it revealed itself as an entertaining character comedy thanks to a set of brilliant performances led by Ward as a catty matriarch driven by self-interest.
Our rooms were catty-corner to each other at the end of the hall. What’s the Weirdest Experience of Your Life?
Those two are quite capable of knocking a million books when they play scatty cats round the house. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
I even made a catty remark about her hairband back in 1992, for which I'm truly sorry.
What makes you and your friends any less bitchy and catty then the girls who's bitchiness and cattiness you talk about all the time?
But despite the slightly scatty appearance and manner he had, Katie thought he looked, kind of capable.
Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material. Archive 2008-02-01
the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
So when you post catty comments about your boss, it is the same as doing so in an interview.
She was a scatty woman with flyaway wisps of carroty hair.
Of course she was very indignant and scolded them, Goliah specially, whereupon Goliah's sister Catty, who is well named, being of a feline nature in the worst sense of the word, had broken out and "cussed" her outrageously. A Woman Rice Planter
It produces in one year two hundred piculs of wax, fifty piculs of tortoise-shell, ten piculs of best camphor, and as much inferior; ten piculs of birds'-nests, at ten dollars the catty; 1st camphor, twenty-five; rattans, one dollar per picul; tortoise-shell, one dollar the catty; wax, twenty the picul. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
Ross did try, but he was too scatty to organise anything.
Janet turned up fashionably late and scatty as usual, almost leaving one of her troupe of children in the back of the cab. Court Out « A Fly in Amber
The justice of the peace was a twitchy little man with a stutter and a two-dollar rug laid cattywampus across his head. Come Again No More
Something of that scatty, archaic, tender quality creeps into Garnett's book, too.
Women better at finding the car keys than their scatty spouses.
ABC couldn't resist a catty comment on its Web site.
As founding Peas, me, Apl, and Will had been tight since way back, and in walked this stranger from Hacienda Heights who fit in like some long-lost relative, and she was sexy without being catty, confident without being arrogant, strong without being over-domineering, and tomboyish without losing her femininity. Fallin’ Up
And as nerves fray and tempers rise you can be assured of a catty remark or backstage rumpus.
They can make all the catty remarks they want and still not pass math.
Mother Hallam is the prototypical matriarch; the sisters-in-law are postmarital versions of Cinderella’s stepsisters — unattractive, catty, and stingy; and the materialistic sons enjoy a complacent rigidity. Rose Franken.
She was the fighter in our group; she could make a tough girl cry with her endless barrage of snotty remarks and catty comebacks.
I thought the hardest part of my recovery would be the pain and the crutches; I wasn't prepared for catty remarks from other dancers.
Arriving in Boston for the show, they discover a web of intrigue, giant-sized egos and really catty behaviour.
The door was unlocked, thanks to our rather scatty tutor.
I find the millennial beat of the water, which has flowed here for thousands of years, a good antidote to the scatty world I live in," he says. Streets on the Thames
It got a bit catty. The Sun
This scatty mish-mash of a summer, in which at its height England will have gone almost three months without a Test match, has lost its shape. Ian Bell helps England stroll past Bangladesh at Trent Bridge
Instead of an evil stepmother, as the Grimms have it, the children have a loving but scatty mother and a caring but drunken father. Hänsel und Gretel: Fatten kid. Cook. Then eat
The noise would drive anyone scatty.
REGAN, MADISON, and SPENCER are sprawled catty-cornered in the main seating area of the lounge. Fashionista
All these glimpses are to lead us towards the conclusion that these women are all incredibly powerful, yet retain a sort of scatty charm.
What makes you and your friends any less bitchy and catty then the girls who's bitchiness and cattiness you talk about all the time?
Certain catty colleagues liked to read these stories aloud.
Catty unlatched the screen door.
A passing insistence on detail – every meal is described, and even the trials of travelling Ryanair get a mention – helps chain a sometimes scatty book to earth. La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review
There was a steady line of traffic, here, as the Manhattan Bridge carried lines of cars into Brooklyn, but just to the left of the bridge, catty-corner to the site of the old tavern, a different kind of line had begun to form, beneath a large sign with a bright red arrow pointing down to a ticket booth. The King's Best Highway
I recommend a mobile phone to make her look not like a scatty old lady but a busy executive on the job.
The climbing world can be a remarkably catty place, so it came as no surprise that not everyone was awed by the Russians' feat.
About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps. Molly Secours: When a 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday
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When a rival female lawyer makes a catty comment about her shade of lipstick, she totally flips out.
We are all in our 50s, so we're not scatty teenagers.
Before Minerva could defend Kelly with a catty remark, Kelly cut her short.
Girls engage in catty behavior and nasty comments, judging each other on appearance and material possessions.
Let joy raise you above negative comments, catty remarks or outright persecution.
I didn't think these girls could be so catty.
By this stage I should tell you about Michelle, our slightly scatty, but very likeable waitress, who had assured me that the lobster was wonderful.
The noise would drive anyone scatty.
They criticize aspects of the scientists 'behavior, which they basically call catty and unprofessional, but the science is sound. Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Ros-Lehtinen, who attended a White House function Monday, used the word catty in reference to late-night tweet. NBC Miami - Top Stories
In the living room, an Eames lounge sits catty-corner to a bentwood rocker; on the dining table, jelly-jar tumblers are set next to Nicole's grandmother's sterling silverware. The Search
The noise would drive anyone scatty.
Does having a scatty heroine, rather than a gormless hero, on the case affect the parody?
Motorcyclists cut catty-cornered across his yard.
She's impulsive and emotional, scatty, hello darling, mwah mwah, and dressed all wrong. TV review: The Deep and Glamour Models, Mum and Me
BMW was certainly betting on a lot of media coverage of their whizzy new building, so much so that Domus magazine ended up running a catty piece on the carefully orchestrated media circus (which was when our photos were taken).
She has a kindly, slightly scatty manner and a lively twinkle in her eye.
If your attitude to food does not change, you may still laugh at the catty comments. The Sun
Having been surrounded by females my entire life I know a lot more catty bitchy violent women than I do men.
It seemed to me as I sat there, eating, drinking wine and talking about Art with them that there are worse things than having a heart with some starch in it; one that's capable of anger and not just sympathy, and a foot that can draw a line that crosses another, catty-corner. The Prince of Beers
The book sporadically manages to be amusingly catty, but never, try as it may, moving.
He's always told Sadie her staff are scatty and unreliable - and now he feels he's been left looking stupid.
There would be whispers at the church socials, catty remarks behind her back in the supermarket aisles.
Eats catty about beef, or 67 eggs, can satisfy one day - long protein amount of radiation.
If your attitude to food does not change, you may still laugh at the catty comments. The Sun
I was racking my mind for some kind of catty remark, but was coming up empty.
His scatty style might seem to some carefully contrived, but through the chinks of his eccentricity something else comes through: genuine sweetness and innocence.
I resent it when my toes are going a bit cattywampus after 8 hours on the retail floor, and when my legs cramp up with the wrong shoes. Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes
Girls engage in catty behavior and nasty comments, judging each other on appearance and material possessions.
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As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me, a very close second to Willow to be quite honest.
They job is making sure that scatty, ill-disciplined journalists sound like they actually know what they're talking about.
a restaurant catty-corner from the theater.
Catty, you could just leave the tatts on the kids and wear one yourself. Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
Best known as the catty assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, Blunt's other royal roles include Princess Isolda andand Catherine Howard in the TV dramas Boudica and Henry VIII. BBC News - Home
set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot
They are excellent, and so am I when I am not lazy, dumb, prejudiced, boring, offensive, and scatty. The Awesome Movement and the Dreaded Even Thoughs
But it's just as well to tell Marie, so that in case Idina should do something -- one of those things women call 'catty' -- she'd be prepared. The Guests Of Hercules
Let the customers put up with the cattywampus walls they are inflicting on the outside environment, and see how they like it. Suing the architect.
As for Elliot, she's as scatty as a fruit fly, the constant butt of Cox's cutting jokes.
It's all better than the show with the 5 posh advertising bints who are catty at each other in order to win a pointless facsimile of a boring man in marketing simply because he is loaded.
Marines typically test plates using what's called a torque test, in which you grab catty-corner edges of the plate and twist as hard as you can. Marine Corps using X-rays to inspect armor
Seriously scatty, it was almost as if she was oblivious to her surroundings and continued to live exactly as she had in Manhattan.
You never get catty comments like that from female customers.
The girls in this school, I thought, gave the word catty a new meaning. Melody
Another advantage/disadvantage depending on how scatty you are is that an individual PC card will only work with a particular notebook.
Anyone who has seen Joan Rivers in action will recognise the characters as no-nonsense Beverly (Chaffin) and scatty Ronna (Denbo) wrest control of our love lives. Ronna and Beverly
Catty, my liquidity may be best described as parched, or even dessicated. Cheeseburger Gothic » I dips me lid to Lord Bob of Nowhere.
In the ad the announcer refers to Frank as "catty," Boxer as "arrogant," and Pelosi as "in charge. Ad of the day: Angle goes after Obama ahead of campaign visit
I too am short and busty, and I usually look pregnant, my problem with the maxi is that so many of them have strappy or halter or even strapless tops, and frankly, even though Catty’s teen would probably get away with it, I don’t like showing my bra straps to all and sundry. Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me.
‘But it’s really very useful, and not at all bad, considering that I bought it off a higgler for a pound, and Scatty and I made it go. Sweet Danger
It got a bit catty. The Sun
Von Storch has sunk nearly $100,000 of his own money into producing a pilot titled "Complicated Order," which paints von Storch as a prototypical Bravo-ready diva -- driven, a smidge catty, exuding wealth, surrounded by insane employees -- who is building an empire in a cosmopolitan, nonfederal version of Washington. D.C. developer David von Storch is pumped to take fitness centers to a new level
Young said she had looked back on her somewhat scatty notes from the judging process and words such as "extraordinary, special, striking, moving". Ulster Museum takes top arts prize
The most unbecoming thing you can do is get all catty with her.
Summoning the presence not to say something catty, I said something silly.
When a rival female lawyer makes a catty comment about her shade of lipstick, she totally flips out.
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Last Sunday we went out for dinner, last night we went out for dinner to celebrate Chase's birthday and he's working tonight, and then next Sunday is Easter, so my posts are a little cattywampus these days. Eat'n veg'n vegan food and recipes
An office would not be an office without gossip and catty remarks.
If this is mean to be reassurance, it's cattywampus" said Allie, grinning at Myra. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE
A scatty sort of goal midway through the first period put an end to that hope.
Is this really what she dreamed of doing when she was in college: writing catty comments about the clothes and hairstyles of people who have actually accomplished things in their own lives?
And not for the first time - so much for word processors and their scatty young users. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
Slightly scatty, she is perceived as neurotic, which seems par for the course in the New York she inhabits.
In the living room, an Eames lounge sits catty-corner to a bentwood rocker; on the dining table, jelly-jar tumblers are set next to Nicole's grandmother's sterling silverware. The Search
A scatty young woman decides to bring her family together by cooking Thanksgiving dinner in her tiny New York apartment.
A few moments later, down in that overheated basement, feeling the detectives breathing down their necks, the techs pick her up again sitting on a wooden bench about ten feet past the corner of Crosby and Prince, catty-cornered from the office building she left, a few steps past the entrance to Savoy. A Life And Death in CCTV
Here are some other uplifting things: a cycle ride in the sun, coffee in the garden, a sleepy-eyed hello from the cat, which summons up the energy to eat some catty lunch before going for another sleep.
We have many friends and acquaintances with different political values, but these two are the only ones who feel the need to ruin a perfectly nice evening with snide and catty comments about people whom they know we support.
A diva-like flightiness is central to her character, a loving but scatty single mum who had her first child in her mid-teens, works as a cleaner, and swings unpredictably between snappish burnout and little-girl fragility.
A spiteful, vicious corner of my mind wants to yell so that they know how catty she is being.
I even made a catty remark about her hairband back in 1992, for which I'm truly sorry.
Everyone in the building knew whose car that was and now someone who lived near me knew that I was “scatty.” Unbearable Lightness
And as nerves fray and tempers rise you can be assured of a catty remark or backstage rumpus.
The catty rumor was that the only reason Oseary got his job was that he was her boyfriend.
Like scatty professors who see things working in theory and wonder if they would also work in practice, they might have twigged that this huge hit to the public's pocket hasn't made much, if any, difference to consumption.

How To Use Catty In A Sentence

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