Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mean or spiteful remarks or behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Vileness or coarseness in a woman; unchastity or lewdness in general.
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- noun
Behavior considered typical of abitch
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jezebel, meanwhile, feels like the nastiest kind of bitchery, a girl-on-girl catfight that never seems to end and isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is.
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A mean mother can be boiled down to a reduction of her bitchery, a set of anecdotes.
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TV Guide Magazine: Feminists would likely view Carly's overt bitchery as demeaning and self-defeating — hardly the image of an empowered woman Discuss!
General Hospital's Laura Wright Previews the Carly-Brenda Smack Down 2010
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Press play on our two-part interview below to see what Irina had to say about her controversial all-black collection, how the nickname Mean-a Irina came to be, and her claim that behind whatever bitchery she displayed on screen, there was always a good reason for it … only, it consistently ended up on the cutting-room floor.
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And SYTYCD, you need to call out the bitchery of Mia and Tyce.
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A mean mother can be boiled down to a reduction of her bitchery, a set of anecdotes.
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It's precious bitchery like this that gives opera criticism its bad name.
Anna Nicole - review 2011
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Yes, most of Coolidge's set is Hollywood bitchery that trades on her low-level celebrity.
Jennifer Coolidge 2010
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Her roomie in Cheertown is the impossibly perky rah-rah team captain Savannah Monroe (High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale — and yes, there's a throwaway "Sharpee" joke) who is at least amusing as she tries to preserve a "no negativity zone" amid the various back-stabbing bitchery you expect from the genre.
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By the 1970s, White had refined his feelings about her: A beautiful, tart and brittle woman, more American than Chinese, and mistress of every level of the American language from the verses of the hymnal to the most sophisticated bitchery.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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