bitchin'

slang
as in damnable

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Adjective
  • Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling, as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • She was fired because her findings about the deplorable conditions in juvenile facilities didn’t align with the state’s political narrative.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • At almost every turn, they were guarded, held at gunpoint and kept in such deplorable conditions that one of them developed countless sores, another could not walk and a third had serious health conditions that went untreated.
    Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • But a wave of summer shows were canceled in response, with conservative leader Kemi Badenoch—a uniquely detestable political figure in a country that perfected the form—calling on Glastonbury to remove the band from this year’s bill.
    Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 28 May 2025
  • Top-notch casting is the cherry on top, with Lily James as the supremely likable Cinderella, Richard Madden as her down-to-earth prince, Cate Blanchett as the detestable stepmother with her own imperfect backstory, and Helena Bonham Carter as one lovably flighty fairy godmother.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • From redundant processes in supply chains to suboptimal energy consumption, these issues reduce overall societal wealth.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Luck has two options: Hire a permanent coach this spring under suboptimal circumstances; or appoint an interim coach for the 2025 season.
    Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The downsides are that DEET smells awful, is oily, and can damage anything with plastic in it, like synthetic clothing and camping gear.
    Kristin Canning, Wired News, 21 May 2025
  • But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Lori survives the brutal events of prom night, but not without a fight.
    Jane LaCroix, People.com, 24 May 2025
  • Amid the brutal cuts across the federal government under the Trump administration, perhaps one of the most gutting is the loss of experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who respond to lead poisoning in children.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • If the response is unsatisfactory, the district could use information in the audit to refuse the two schools renewal.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2025
  • Democrats found the responses from Trump officials unsatisfactory.
    Nik Popli, Time, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • At the heart of the film are individual memories of the unspeakable, life-altering agony that Vahid and his companions suffered—experiences that, in light of Panahi’s own persecution, take on a devastating personal significance.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 May 2025
  • In its place was a spirit of unity and kindness, a solidarity born out of unspeakable tragedy.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
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“Bitchin'.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitchin%27. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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