bitchin'

adjective

Definition of bitchin'next
slang
as in damnable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bitchin'
  1. damnable
  2. deplorable
  3. detestable
  4. suboptimal
  5. awful
  6. brutal
  7. unsatisfactory
  8. unspeakable
Adjective
  • Drawing the line isn’t easy, and the damnable thing is that standards change from generation to generation.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of damnable
Adjective
  • Trump needs to rescind this deplorable action and move swiftly to implement the Lindsey Graham Act.
    — Joel R. Levin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Our present condition is deplorable on account of a terrific burden of unemployment caused by overproduction.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of deplorable
Adjective
  • Soon after he was elected, the Half Moon Bay shooting occurred in January 2023, killing eight farmworkers and exposing detestable housing conditions for the county’s immigrant farmworkers.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026
Definition of detestable
Adjective
  • After three suboptimal innings, Glasnow settled down in a trust-building exercise of an outing against the Giants and their triple A-caliber lineup.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Less likely, perhaps, not least because even a suboptimal outcome can be dressed up as a correct decision if three of the five panellists feel the VAR was right not to get involved.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of suboptimal
Adjective
  • Jake Bauers has been awful for most of his career, but graduated in 2018 as a top-50 prospect.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Trailing 12-0 after its awful start, BC scored the next 14 points, jumping in front on McKenzie’s 11-yard score to Javarius Green.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of awful
Adjective
  • Especially for a team that's played a brutal schedule through the first six weeks.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The Broncos get a long weekend off after their brutal six-week opening stretch.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of brutal
Adjective
  • But what an imaginative launching pad to interrogate the nature of greatness, the unsatisfactory acknowledgements of one’s own mediocrity, the seemingly unjust parceling out of genius from God.
    — Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
  • For City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, who represents Boyle Heights, the investigation’s conclusion was unsatisfactory.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of unsatisfactory
Adjective
  • Pamela Voorhees’s appeal was always as an unlikely killer, a devoted mother driven to unspeakable violence by a personal tragedy.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
  • This woman, this young woman, had already endured something that is utterly unspeakable and that at every turn, she was failed by people and institutions with an obligation to protect her.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of unspeakable
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