BITCHINESS Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

bitchiness

noun

Definition of bitchiness

as in contempt

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Recent Examples of bitchiness In less capable hands, her bitchiness, her vanity, her vindictiveness would have made her one-dimensional. — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 As two snotty rich girls, Kate Vernon and Emily Longstreth are positively princess, convincing in their cool bitchiness. — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026 After Briar’s bitchiness, the sweetest queen of the season, Mandy Mango, enters the building. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2026

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Noun

Held in contempt Former CEO of Apollo Global Management Leon Black arrives to testify at a closed-door interview with the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 26, 2026.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
On Tuesday the Oversight Committee voted unanimously to approve the contempt recommendation, sending it to the full House.

— Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of contempt

Noun

Beyond just seeing him as an outsider, the loudest critiques of Cenat’s foray into fashion seem to be wrapped up in a broader disdain for streamer culture writ large.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
The story resonated, not because this one World Cup match mattered, but because the presumptuous disdain that America showed for everyone else was so familiar.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of disdain

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Weisberger’s book may have been an opportunistic takedown, but the director David Frankel and the screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna spun it into one of the finer Hollywood entertainments of its era, with the pleasing sophistication and bitchery of a classic studio comedy from the forties or fifties.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
Throughout many revealing conversations, the braggadocious zeal of Poseidon and Zeus, the sexy aloofness of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and the sniveling bitchery of Hermes and Hypnos were endearing, but all gave way to flawed people who grew deeply over time.

— Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025

Definition of bitchery

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Others — unable to recognize him as advancing the baton passed on by the athlete-activists now commonly praised for their bravery — viewed Kaepernick with disgust.

— Mike Jones, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Someone else expresses revulsion at seeing dogs devour bodies left to rot, but the disgust doesn’t seem to extend to the killings themselves.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of disgust

Noun

Some have also shared with me a profound distaste for how their friends and family are using AI for therapy and companionship, and a deep concern for their future employment prospects.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
But all of that distaste was supposed to go away when the games began, when the undefeated and delicious product that is college football finally got the chance to shove the ancillary stuff back into the shadows.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of distaste

Noun

Someone else expresses revulsion at seeing dogs devour bodies left to rot, but the disgust doesn’t seem to extend to the killings themselves.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Anyone with even the mildest case of trypophobia—the sense of revulsion from tiny clusters and holes—should avert their eyes.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of revulsion

Noun

On the other hand, the fact that Warren is so annoying reminds us that unreal people can elicit genuine repulsion.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
But your, your thing with the Plücker coordinates, and the… does the zero mean that that’s the analog of repulsion.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026

Definition of repulsion

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