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 |
| RANCOROUS | 2 % | 9 |
| VENOMOUS | 2 % | 8 |
| MALICIOUS | 2 % | 9 |
| WASPLIKE | 2 % | 8 |
| ROTTEN | 2 % | 6 |
| WASPISH | 2 % | 7 |
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 RANCOROUS
More clues leading to the result VENOMOUS
More clues leading to the result MALICIOUS
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