Translation examples
noun
Honey, if catty were a perfume, you'd reek of it.
Cariño, si la malicia fuera un perfume, apestarías a él.
He appreciated the opportunity for such wholly naked cattiness.
Apreciaba tener una oportunidad para hacer tal malicia sin disimulo.
‘Oh my God,’ Patrick says again, taking everything back in his head, all the doubt, the cattiness.
—Oh, Dios mío —dice de nuevo Patrick, olvidándose de todo, de todas las dudas, de toda la malicia.
You remind me of Lady Castlewood, Helen Pendennis, and Amelia Sedley, with the spitefulness and priggishness and catty ways left out.
Me recuerdas a lady Castlewood, Helen Pendennis y Amelia Sedley[4], sólo que sin malicia, gazmoñería o insinuación.
At first there were fighting denials, but the pleasure of affection overrode them, a pleasure oddly shared by the other boys, who were both catty and collusive.
Al principio lo desmentía con vehemencia, pero el placer del afecto anulaba esas negativas, un placer extrañamente compartido por los otros chicos, cuya malicia contrastaba con su connivencia.
To do Nemia justice, even at the risk of imputing a certain cattiness to the Mouser, her charms were neither overblown, nor even ample, but only ... sufficient.
Para hacer justicia a Nemia, aun a riesgo de achacar cierta malicia al Ratonero, sus encantos no eran ni muy maduros ni excesivos, sino sólo... suficientes.
He set quite a few frail hearts a-flutter in Fanning Court but had done his best to neatly sidestep romance and intrigue, for although it was all pleasantries on the surface, beneath the magnolia paint the place seethed with gossip and cattiness.
En su época en Fanning Court hizo estremecerse unos cuantos corazones, pero se esforzó al máximo en eludir limpiamente romances e intrigas, pues aunque en la superficie todo fuera cortesía, bajo la pintura magnolia aquel sitio era un hervidero de cotilleos y malicia.
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