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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
  • Investigators said the children remained mostly confined to a small room in the house under deplorable conditions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said Houck's son was living in deplorable conditions with drugs within his reach.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 8 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
  • The Colts got whacked by the Ravens, and their new-look defense was awful.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2026
  • In one respect, John Harbaugh seems to have brought winning football back to New York New Jersey Stadium; conversely, the Cowboys’ defense is sufficiently awful to make even the lowliest opponent look like a contender.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of awful
Adjective
  • Horror films and increasingly brutal crime stories reveal the very large market for the subject.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • McKinley stages a few bullet-sweating sequences of peril, including a particularly brutal transport of gold bars across a crumbling rope bridge and an underwater accident exacerbated by floating logs.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of brutal
Adjective
  • The changes with the psychologists do not meet her expectations and have created an unsatisfactory situation.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Within minutes of Hochul's remarks, New York Attorney General Letitia James issued subpoenas to law enforcement agencies that either did not confirm plans to unwind their agreements, or whose responses were deemed unsatisfactory.
    — Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of unsatisfactory
Adjective
  • The expressions of dissent were silenced with unspeakable violence.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Mom and mental health advocate Meghan Cliffel wonders why others only seem concerned about the condition in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy.
    — Deborah Becker, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of unspeakable
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“Bitchin'.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitchin%27. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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