What's the difference between bitchy and feisty?

Bitchy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other concerns about Wilson's behaviour were attributed by the nursery manager to "bitchy" members of staff, the report said.
  • (2) I still watch New Girl and I can’t stand Jess, so I can at least give wonderfully bitchy Gretchen a shot, if only in honor of the dearly departed B in Apartment 23.
  • (3) Texts in which she begged him not to kick her out or not to beat her up were just her being “bitchy” or “dramatic”.
  • (4) She is impossible to dislike and I confess that I tried yet in the occasionally bitchy world of books she is nicknamed Lady Gush.
  • (5) I speak, of course, about the rise of Bitchy Resting Face.
  • (6) The newly sacked Trierweiler was widely seen by the public as peremptory and mean, an impression reinforced by the dispatch of a bitchy tweet soon after Hollande became president, undermining her predecessor, Ségolène Royale.
  • (7) Confident women at work are still labeled "bossy" and "bitchy", to their own detriment – unless they can "turn it off" .
  • (8) One of its finest pleasures was the way it shed a revealing light on the camaraderie of female friendship, so often depicted as a passive-aggressive exchange of bitchiness.
  • (9) – but this is exactly why talking about feminist infighting is so difficult: it makes women sound like the bitchy babies that sexists have always suggested we are, incapable of being given any position of authority without throwing tampons at one another, and therefore best left in the kitchen.
  • (10) Even though they'd make really good bitchy girlfriends.
  • (11) Women aren’t confident; they’re hard or bitchy.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) It makes her cross when people complain that groups of women can be bitchy.
  • (14) Bitchiness about this abounds, with everybody insisting that somebody else should be paying him, but that he shouldn’t have to pay for anybody else.
  • (15) "They might not be bitches at all – they might just have faces that look bitchy," one of the films several narrators clucks sympathetically.
  • (16) However, it is understood that 3am.co.uk will take a different tack to the, at times, bitchy tone adopted by Hilton's site with a "fun attitude" that keeps in style of the original 3am column.
  • (17) Dappled apple trees and "perfect" lives riddled with curtain-twitching darknesses, great social humour, heartache, industrial-strength bitchiness and, at their best, plotlines that somehow managed to marry Twin Peaks to The Simpsons , and Marcia Cross as the ever-magnificent Bree.
  • (18) Conclave might well be set in a realm even more bitchy and anachronistic than that of the Palace of Westminster, but with its unbudging binaries – the cardinals are either liberal or not – and its talk of schism, not to mention the role pride and envy play in proceedings, it brings to mind nothing so much as Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party, which, as all the world knows, is shortly to announce the result of its very own election.
  • (19) Jessica Bennett , Executive Editor, Tumblr For me, the novelty of Lean In is that it put words to what I believe many women of my generation struggle with: that paralyzing sense of self-doubt, that insecurity, that fear of being perceived as too harsh (or, god forbid, bitchy) that causes us to keep our hands down instead of raising them (or, as Sandberg puts it, to 'lean back when we should be Leaning In').
  • (20) When I’m in an argument with someone, I can be very bitchy and very sarcastic,” she said at her trial for child cruelty in relation to a broken shoulder pathologists found Ellie had suffered.

Feisty


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
  • (2) I have met brave, feisty writers, publishers and translators here in Turkey who will take on this challenge and not be intimidated, but how many others will decide that this is not a risk that they want or are able to take?"
  • (3) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
  • (4) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
  • (5) They weren’t exactly fashionable, but they were feisty, they were sexy – and I think it related to the fabric of the city.
  • (6) In fact, for feisty, you have drink one of those pints with a submerged shot glass.
  • (7) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
  • (8) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
  • (9) A few minutes around the corner is ORSO , a 2014 coffee “laboratory” serving feisty arabica and robusta from around the globe.
  • (10) And it was not long before she and feisty Hefina in a tour de force performance became spokeswomen for their community.
  • (11) When I'd met Zaria, just before her operation, I was struck by the energy of this funny, feisty, beautiful young medical student with a tattoo and bundles of raven hair.
  • (12) In a wide-ranging interview in Broadcasting House the day after the review was announced, a feisty director general admits that the recommendations, to be delivered early next year, are likely to lead to "narrower services".
  • (13) It described Gordon as feisty and outspoken but often "highly dependent upon the men in her life".
  • (14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
  • (15) A Forsa survey shows that the SPD has gained three points from a week earlier to 29% after the selection of the feisty, plain-speaking 65-year-old.
  • (16) A feisty and inspiring young head was resolutely tackling the school's problems to give his pupils a better chance.
  • (17) McCain cracked jokes and gave a feisty performance as he endorsed Romney.
  • (18) Just think of the hoardings: feisty women with attitude, sporting magnificent fingernails and vaguely dressed as St Mary Magdalene, are seen tearing at Pontius Pilate’s face – someone like Nigel Havers, looking saucy.” Christ’s Jerusalem Monopoly “My kids have a Star Wars one,” the permanent secretary tells a minister irritably.
  • (19) And there was this feisty meeting with Brazil in 1970.
  • (20) He also writes a feisty blog for the Financial Times - a recent example was headed "Confessions of a crass Keynesian".