Definition of "bitchery" [bitchery]

• Malicious remarks or spiteful behavior: "the rapidly escalating and darkening volley of nasty political bitchery” ( Joe Brown). (noun)

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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."
• "A mean mother can be boiled down to a reduction of her bitchery, a set of anecdotes."
• "TV Guide Magazine: Feminists would likely view Carly's overt bitchery as demeaning and self-defeating — hardly the image of an empowered woman Discuss!"