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
Morgan might think that she’s evolved past certain things and then the minute she’s codependent with her sister, they devolve back into the bratty kid-like versions of themselves that are like picking on each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Before “stepping into the bratty curls of ‘Oh, Mary!’,” the actress became known for playing prima donnas on TV.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
John followed up like a bratty little sister playing copycat.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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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