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bitch·y

 (bĭch′ē)
adj. bitch·i·er, bitch·i·est Slang
1. Mean, spiteful, or overbearing.
2. In a bad mood; irritable or cranky.

bitch′i·ly adv.
bitch′i·ness n.
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bitchy

(ˈbɪtʃɪ)
adj, bitchier or bitchiest
informal characteristic of or behaving like a bitch; malicious; snide: a bitchy put-down.
ˈbitchily adv
ˈbitchiness n
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.bitchy - marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"
malicious - having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
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bitchy

adjective (Informal) spiteful, mean, nasty, cruel, vicious, malicious, barbed, vindictive, malevolent, venomous, snide, rancorous, catty (informal), backbiting, shrewish, ill-natured, vixenish Women are not the only ones who say bitchy things about each other.
kindly, nice, generous, charitable, gracious, magnanimous
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bitchy

adjective
Slang. Characterized by intense ill will or spite:
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Translations
مُضايَقٌ في الكلام
jedovatýzlý
spydig
tíkarlegur; andstyggilegur
hainkancıksivri dilli

bitchy

[ˈbɪtʃɪ] ADJ (bitchier (compar) (bitchiest (superl))) [person] → malicioso; [remark] → malintencionado, de mala leche (Sp)
to be bitchy to sbser malicioso con algn
that was a bitchy thing to doeso fue una puñalada trapera, eso fue una guarrada (Sp)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bitchy

[ˈbɪtʃi] adj (= catty) [person, remark] → vache
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bitchy

adj (+er) (inf) womangehässig, gemein; remark alsobissig; that was a bitchy thing to do/saydas war gehässig or gemein; he started getting bitchy (about her)er fing an, bissige or gehässige Bemerkungen (über sie) zu machen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bitchy

[ˈbɪtʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → maligno/a
a bitchy remark → una cattiveria
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bitch

(bitʃ) noun
1. the female of the dog, wolf or fox.
2. a (bad-tempered or unpleasant) woman.
son of a bitch noun, interjection
(slang) an annoying and nasty person; an unpleasant task. The son of a bitch tried to cheat me!
ˈbitchy adjective
(usually of women) fond of making unpleasant comments about people. She is sometimes very bitchy about her colleagues.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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Looking like Joan Rivers' bitchier sister, she gleefully proceeded to pull the petals from Liz's business plan, while fellow interrogator Claudine Collins took such delight in dynamiting the candidates' confidence that I began to suspect she was actually Claude Littner in drag.
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A third of women polled also say the office has got bitchier in the recession and half admitted considering a baby to go on maternity leave for a year to escape the drudgery, the Daily Express reported.
"It's going to get a lot bitchier from now on with the stakes going up all the time.
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But the real climax came only with the realization that it was the suffering, the pain, the discomfort, the misery of all those countless others that they enjoyed, and from then on that became the core around which all their enjoyment revolved, the touchstone of their real enjoyment: if in it they could sense that it cast over countless people a shadow of sheer pain, humiliation, exhaustion, hunger, fear--to make life a bit more brutal, a bit more intense, a bit bitchier, a bit more real.