bitchin'

adjective

Definition of bitchin'next
slang
as in damnable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bitchin'
  1. damnable
  2. deplorable
  3. detestable
  4. suboptimal
  5. awful
  6. brutal
  7. unsatisfactory
  8. unspeakable
Adjective
  • Drawing the line isn’t easy, and the damnable thing is that standards change from generation to generation.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of damnable
Adjective
  • The children remained mostly confined to a small room in the house, investigators said, under deplorable conditions.
    — Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Hospital reconstruction in Cuba The second phase would focus more on rebuilding hospitals and medical centers on the island, which are in a deplorable state.
    — Sarah Moreno July 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of deplorable
Adjective
  • Soon after he was elected, the Half Moon Bay shooting occurred in January 2023, killing eight farmworkers and exposing detestable housing conditions for the county’s immigrant farmworkers.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026
Definition of detestable
Adjective
  • Simply put, emergency departments are incurring costs to manage psychiatric patients, while the patients themselves receive suboptimal care.
    — Ian West, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Summers spent working away flaws that emerged in suboptimal moments.
    — Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 6 June 2026
Definition of suboptimal
Adjective
  • One year Pippa Middleton faced the awful shame of having to sit in a normal seat after showing up late.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Sugar is at the forensic lab with the corpse of a man who looks an awful lot like Ji Moon but isn’t Ji Moon (courtesy of Shea Whigham as Tom Flybjerg).
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 27 June 2026
Definition of awful
Adjective
  • And Addy, perhaps the most brutal American Girl story, is enslaved.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • In January, the government suppressed huge nationwide protests in a brutal crackdown that left thousands dead.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 3 July 2026
Definition of brutal
Adjective
  • Lacking exposure to new knowledge can feel quite unsatisfactory.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Anything less is considered unsatisfactory.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 1 June 2026
Definition of unsatisfactory
Adjective
  • On-screen, stars depict unspeakable acts of violence and cruelty.
    — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • When once-unspeakable truths break through and are finally said aloud, that is a win.
    — Marcus Anthony Hunter, Time, 19 June 2026
Definition of unspeakable
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