The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CATTY , but the solution may also be MEAN which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Spiteful crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CATTY | 33 % | 5 |
| NASTY | 28 % | 5 |
| MEAN | 17 % | 4 |
| CATTISH | 7 % | 7 |
| SNIDE | 5 % | 5 |
| WASPLIKE | 2 % | 8 |
| ROTTEN | 2 % | 6 |
| WASPISH | 2 % | 7 |
| RANCOROUS | 2 % | 9 |
| VENOMOUS | 2 % | 8 |
| MALICIOUS | 2 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Spiteful
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hateful
- malicious
- despiteful
- awful
- nasty
- vindictive
- mean
- evil
- wicked
- ornery
- bad
- unkind
Crossword Answer definitions
CATTY adjective- (of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.
- Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
- A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CATTY
- __-cornered (diagonal)
- Into nasty gossip
- Deliberately hurtful
- Grimalkin-like
- Slyly spiteful
- Malicious, as a remark
- Spiteful
- Given to hissing and scratching?
- Slyly malicious
- Slyly cruel
More clues leading to the result NASTY
- Malicious
- Painful
- Particularly unpleasant
- Bitter
- Foul-smelling
- Not at all nice
- Mean-spirited
- Foul-tasking
- Vile
- Janet Jackson, 1986
More clues leading to the result MEAN
- Average
- Cruel
- Intend
- Like football's Joe Greene
- Low-down and nasty
- Greenwich __ time
- Nasty
- __-spirited
- Low-down
- Downright nasty
More clues leading to the result CATTISH
More clues leading to the result SNIDE
- Contemptuous
- Cynical
- Derogatory
- Caustic, as a remark
- Sassy
- Dismissive
- Sarcastic
- Like some remarks
- Rudely sarcastic
- Nasty
More clues leading to the result WASPLIKE
More clues leading to the result ROTTEN
- Worm-eaten
- Decomposed
- Sex Pistol's singer
- Decayed
- Suspicious, as in Hamlet's Denmark
- Wretchedly bad
- Despicable
- Wretchedly bad
- Front man Johnny of the Sex Pistols
- Spoiled