cattiness
/ˈkæti.nəs/
noun
- Behavior or remarks that are spiteful, unkind, or intended to hurt someone's feelings, especially in a subtle or indirect way.
- Her cattiness during the meeting made everyone uncomfortable.
- I try to avoid the cattiness that sometimes happens in office gossip.
- The review was full of cattiness, attacking the author personally rather than the book.
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