What's the difference between bitchy and unpleasant?

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.

Unpleasant


Definition:

  • (a.) Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the ketamine group, 36% of the patients complained of unpleasant dreams.
  • (2) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
  • (3) The subjects described the thirst sensations as mainly due to a dry unpleasant tasting mouth, which was promptly relieved by drinking.
  • (4) It is no wonder that these visits can be stressful and unpleasant.
  • (5) Jonathan Rees, who was yesterday cleared of murdering his former business partner, Daniel Morgan, is a private investigator of a particularly unpleasant and vindicative kind.
  • (6) The lack of clinical activity and the unpleasant adverse effects in this population of patients with previously treated cervix cancer makes it unlikely that this drug will play any significant role in treatment.
  • (7) It must be very unpleasant to find out you’ve violated a brilliant artist whose public performance about you has drawn international attention and widespread support.
  • (8) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
  • (9) Before and after the experiment subjects were required to answer a questionnaire concerned with their image and attitude toward computers and the degree to which the task of typing is unpleasant.
  • (10) In our experience intestinal bypass, though resulting in significant weight loss, is associated with a number of unpleasant complications.
  • (11) "If you told them that some ... warheads were going to be dropped there and that it would be a very unpleasant place to go, they would not go there."
  • (12) In a joint statement the chapels said:"It shows management's utter disregard for the loyalty and dedication that their staff show every day in their efforts to produce quality newspapers and magazines, and sends out a deeply unpleasant message: no matter your experience or your commitment, everything is rated by cost."
  • (13) High problem severity was primarily associated with drinking in response to unpleasant affect and the belief that alcohol enhances social behavior.
  • (14) In an attitude survey of pregnant women 77% believed that vaginal examination was reassuring, 55% found it unpleasant, and 18% thought it could cause miscarriage.
  • (15) Cold pressor stimulation consisted of forearm immersion in a circulating water bath maintained at 0-1 degrees C. Subjects made threshold determinations of pain and tolerance and used Visual Analogue Scales to rate the strength and the unpleasantness of both noxious stimuli before and after receiving either hypnosis- or relaxation-induced analgesia.
  • (16) What's impressive is Cole's unfailing good cheer in the face of so much unpleasantness.
  • (17) It’s not as smelly as people imagine (myth number three), but it is still unpleasant, especially when the space is this confined, and one of the men tells me he reckons they are underpaid for what they do.
  • (18) Lidocaine (20 mg IV) will significantly reduce the incidence and severity of pain with propofol injection, but about 6% of patients will still suffer unpleasant pain if the dorsum of the hand is used.
  • (19) Both normal controls and left brain-damaged patients often averted their gaze from the screen when unpleasant material was displayed, whereas right brain-damaged patients rarely showed gaze aversion.
  • (20) However, all 8 subjects had unpleasant nasal symptoms following chlormethiazole, and it is therefore not an ideal hypnotic for this age group.