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Definition of "bitchy" []

  • Slang Malicious, spiteful, or overbearing. (adjective)
  • Slang In a bad mood; irritable or cranky. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bitchy" in a sentence
  • "I should have left well enough alone, but no, I call the bitchy parent back who had just left a perticularly nasty message on my voicemail while I was taking a most lovely of lovely steamy hot bath while perusing a 2 foot deep stack of National Geographics."
  • "Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties."
  • "Because his reviews were so intemperate ( "God knows I've never aspired to anything like impartiality"), and, yes, because he happens to be gay, he's been dismissed as "bitchy" - "a troubled queen.""