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Recent Examples of bitchiness
As two snotty rich girls, Kate Vernon and Emily Longstreth are positively princess, convincing in their cool bitchiness.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bitchiness
Noun
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Paxton voters are more intense in their contempt for Cornyn than vice versa.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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The decision of the soap press to even cover the show proved contentious for the genre’s devotees, who just couldn’t fathom that publications were giving credence to a program that held the form in such contempt.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Other players joined in acknowledging supporters but the decibels of their disdain grew stronger.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Trump, with his disdain for global alliances and liberal values, doesn’t seem interested in contesting Xi on these fronts.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
Noun
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OpenAI countered that Musk is driven by jealousy and regret.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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The messages detailed Hernandez’s jealousy over Burke’s involvement with other women and included threats to publicly reveal details about their relationship.—
Laura Payne,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15 May 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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But the outward disgust toward the AI boom doesn’t tell the full story of the 2026 graduating class’s relationship to AI.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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Notably, observing someone else’s expression of disgust can also activate the same insular sites as experiencing disgust firsthand.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
Noun
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But distaste is found across the political spectrum, Gallup says.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
15 May 2026
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Thirteen years later, his distaste for the self-assuredness of tech leaders who reassured him all would be good seems prescient.—
Ron Kampeas,
Sun Sentinel,
11 May 2026
Noun
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Watching Jackie read her profoundly scary tale, my reaction moved from curiosity to revulsion to fear… not of her, but of Michael.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 May 2026
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His popularity’s decline was shaped partly by race, partly by our deep but uneven revulsion toward scandal involving children, and partly by a media ecosystem that devours spectacle.—
Steven Gray,
Time,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Covering politics today is a grim dance between the vicious and the idiotic, between repulsion and despair.—
Megan McArdle,
Washington Post,
10 May 2026
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Part of the reason is due to its incredible weakness; the gravitational attraction between two electrons is more than forty orders of magnitude smaller than the electrostatic repulsion between two electrons.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 May 2026
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“Bitchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitchiness. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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