cattiness

  • 31libel — Synonyms and related words: affidavit, allegation, asperse, aspersion, backbite, backbiting, bad mouth, barefaced lie, belittle, belittlement, besmirch, bill, bill of complaint, bitchiness, blacken, blot, burlesque, calumniate, calumniation,… …

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  • 32scandal — Synonyms and related words: abomination, abuse, asperse, aspersion, atrocity, backbiting, backstabbing, bad, badge of infamy, belittlement, bitchiness, black mark, black spot, blemish, burning shame, byword, byword of reproach, calumniate,… …

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  • 33slander — Synonyms and related words: asperse, assail, attack, backbite, backbiting, backstabbing, barefaced lie, belie, belittlement, bitchiness, blackwash, calumniate, calumniation, calumny, cattiness, character assassination, consummate lie, damage,… …

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  • 34spite — Synonyms and related words: Anglophobia, Russophobia, Schadenfreude, abhorrence, abomination, animosity, annoy, antagonism, anti Semitism, antipathy, aversion, belligerence, bigotry, bitchiness, bitterness, bone to pick, cattiness, clash,… …

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  • 35catty — cat|ty [ˈkæti] adj someone who is catty says unkind things about people >cattily adv >cattiness n [U] …

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  • 36catty — adjective (cattier, cattiest) 1》 spiteful. 2》 relating to cats; catlike. Derivatives cattily adverb cattiness noun …

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  • 37catty — adjective someone who is catty is unpleasant and often says nasty things about people: She s a liar. Does that sound catty, too? cattily adverb cattiness noun (U) …

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  • 38backbiting — noun the backbiting between Democrats and Republicans has become tiresome Syn: malicious talk, spiteful talk, slander, libel, defamation, abuse, character assassination, disparagement, denigration, vilification, vituperation, calumny; slurs,… …

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  • 39malice — noun she had intended no malice toward him Syn: spite, malevolence, ill will, vindictiveness, vengefulness, revenge, malignity, evil intentions, animus, enmity, rancor; informal bitchiness, cattiness; literary maleficence Ant: benevolence …

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  • 40nastiness — noun 1) my mother tried to shut herself off from all the nastiness of life Syn: unpleasantness, disagreeableness, offensiveness, vileness, foulness 2) her uncharacteristic nastiness Syn: unkindness, unpleasantness, unfriendliness,… …

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