catty

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Each letter ends with a p.s. that's a catty quip about the feline in the house, a.k.a. "The Queen."
每封信都以一個狡猾的附言結(jié)尾——都是對屋里那只叫做“王后”的貓的譏諷。
Even the English language is stacked against the moggy.Spiteful people are dubbed as being "catty".
英語中甚至充滿了各種貶低貓的詞語：惡毒的人被稱為“像貓一樣陰險狡猾”；
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It's fine to enjoy watching catty contestants on The Bachelor snipe at one another — because, come on, we all know most women aren't like that.
看“單身漢”里面那些惡毒的參賽者們互相誹謗是挺好的一種享受——因?yàn)槲覀兌贾来蠖鄶?shù)女性不像那樣。

More often than not, the conflict between the two felt strained, catty even, and not particularly funny.
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Catty words, especially speech, are unkind because they are intended to hurt someone.

If someone, especially a woman or girl, is being catty, they are being unpleasant and unkind.
a unit of weight, used esp in E Asia, traditionally equal to about one and a half pounds but formalized as 0.5 kg in China, 0.6 kg in Thailand, and about 0.605 kg in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore ((Mandarin) Chinese name: jin)