bratty
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Her famous bratty son Bart adds: "But we were so scared, and just didn't know what to do."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I actually found it much easier than writing songs about myself. Having the permission to be silly and bratty was so freeing,” Hart said to The Quietus, discussing composing from Lestat’s perspective.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I don’t want to sound bratty because I am on an island, but we plan for one vacation once a year,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Co-produced by Charli XCX collaborators AG Cook and Danny L Harle, it couldn't sound less bratty if it tried.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Mom presses her face into her hands, and Uncle Max rubs her back like she’s an exhausted, overworked mother dealing with a bratty, deadbeat teenager.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The past couple of weeks have also been cluttered with background noise more in keeping with Grande’s younger, brattier, doughnut-licking days than with her recent role as a sympathetic and inspiring survivor.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2019
And so when I am here, there's very little outside mitigation happening, so I tend to be way brattier and more ridiculous.
From The Verge ● Nov. 12, 2015
The new Peter, unhaunted and largely conscience-free, is Indy plus Han Solo; and Guardians is a jauntier, far brattier Star Wars.
From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014
And the band’s cover of Tears for Fears’s “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” was smart, comprehending that its lyrics were always far brattier than its arrangement.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2010
Though more than once, in my brattiest moments, I had wondered whether it would be more helpful not to have money for the wedding, and therefore to have no wedding.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Victorian London’s brattiest wit, Wilde once remarked, of Dickens’s “The Old Curiosity Shop,” that “one must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018
Plus, that would be the only appropriate time to use the brattiest phrase ever: Wait till my father hears about this.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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