bitchery

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If one did not follow him too closely over the years, it would be possible to consider him merely an elegant spokesman for the far right and to allow him his lapses in taste and humanity, his petty bitchery, as marks of the solitary eccentric.

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

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  • "There's independence and then there's sheer bitchery." —  Fatal Tide
  • If one did not follow him too closely over the years, it would be possible to consider him merely an elegant spokesman for the far right and to allow him his lapses in taste and humanity, his petty bitchery, as marks of the solitary eccentric. —  Unbuckled
  • There's a good deal of deception and bitchery, and oodles of explanation, expiation, and expatiation, none of which clears the playing field satisfactorily but turns the play into a two-hours-plus wordfest, with only a smidgen of action.
  • Ah, the bitchery is wise. —  Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
  • "War is a bitchery." —  For Whom The Bell Tolls
 

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