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The word "bitchy" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an informal word, so you can only use it in certain contexts, such as informal writing or speech. You can use it to describe someone who is overly critical, irritable, or mean. For example: "My boss can be really bitchy when things don't go her way."
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Then there were Hopkins' transparently bitchy put-downs, which she dressed up as constructive criticism of her fellow contestants.
I'm a writer and a woman and a feminist, and I write about big, fat, bitchy things that make people uncomfortable.
Acting can be a bitchy profession, but I refuse to lower myself to that.
She has had so much stick for being vile and bitchy, when surely that is the whole point of The Apprentice.
The message in the opening show – which was a likeable mix of music, self-deprecating chat, interaction on social media, interviews, silly features and funny, often quite bitchy quips – was that the power here has shifted and lies squarely in the music.
In an interview with the Sunday Times and with the Independent on Sunday, the peer also lashed out at "bitchy" colleagues who questioned whether she was up to her job, suggesting that Cameron's inner circle did not understand those who had not gone to public school.
She cites the 1980s - the decade of her defining role, bitchy Alexis Carrington in the American soap opera, Dynasty - as the period with the most exciting fashion.
Throughout it all, she's constrained by a thankless role as the brittle, bitchy wife; an uptight Nurse Ratched figure the rebelling Lester can kick against.
The most shocking thing about San Andreas, the earth-shifting new disaster movie starring Dwayne Johnson (we're not allowed to call him The Rock anymore – hugely frustrating given the film's subject matter), isn't the slightly ropey dialogue or Kylie Minogue's cameo role as "bitchy woman of indistinct nationality" but the film's casual choice to break a cardinal rule of blockbuster cinema.
Played as cold and bitchy as Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, she sweeps in part-way through the series with a killer line on the queen's taste in interior design ("I didn't realise that when you decorated, you were going to use Vegas as your theme").
You can read the No 10-guided indictment ("Warsi flounces out") in Wednesday's Mail coverage (relegated to page 6), including a notably bitchy hatchet job on "Baroness Blunder" by Andrew Pierce, who adds overambition and vanity to the charge sheet.
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