bitchin'

slang
as in damnable

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Adjective
  • Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling, as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Migrants said the death was caused in part by deplorable conditions in the warehouse in the coldest winter months that weren’t addressed.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • But such hopes for a prosperous future were dashed by the Macías Nguema regime; the deplorable attitudes of Spain during colonial rule had a psychological impact on Macías, one that helps to explain his demented behavior once in power.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Remember Paul Reiser's detestable Carter Burke in Aliens?
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Top-notch casting is the cherry on top, with Lily James as the supremely likable Cinderella, Richard Madden as her down-to-earth prince, Cate Blanchett as the detestable stepmother with her own imperfect backstory, and Helena Bonham Carter as one lovably flighty fairy godmother.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There will be a natural temptation, though, to kick the can with a suboptimal nuclear deal, which would be a mistake.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Apr. 2025
  • More than 300 studies show consistent associations between lower socioeconomic status and suboptimal sleep health.
    American Heart Association News, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Councilmember Vivian Moreno said the timing on the prostitution detectives seems awful, with prostitution appearing to have gotten worse in recent months on Dalbergia Street in Barrio Logan.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • Alisha Weir stars as the whip-smart Matilda Wormwood, who escapes her awful parents (Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough) by disappearing into books and finding a friend in Lashana Lynch’s sweet Miss Honey at her terrifying new school.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • When local Officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she’s left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 May 2025
  • Bruno Silva via first-round KO This finish was absolutely brutal.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • If any of those questions are met with an unsatisfactory answer, next season could be just as difficult for Manchester City as this one has proved.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The response was unsatisfactory for Senator James Lankford (R-Ok.), who spoke on behalf of companies that shifted sourcing strategies during Trump’s first term in office.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Unencumbered by the stark binary of good and evil, Bring Her Back argues that love and longing can drive us to unspeakable acts.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 May 2025
  • Facing unspeakable evil with the greatest – and unsuspected – resolve a human being can ever hope for, Jean Moulin’s story reverberates until today.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 May 2025
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“Bitchin'.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitchin%27. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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