prat

Example Sentences

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He said: "Everything seemed to be legit, but I got turned over, I feel a bit of a prat."

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025

And Conservative MP Tim Loughton said Mr Hancock had been an "absolute prat" and losing the Tory whip was "the least he deserves".

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2022

Let’s be honest: Late-November Thanksgiving is more often than not an inconvenient pain in the prat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2020

In 2010’s Boy, for example, Waititi played an absent father in a nowhere coastal New Zealand town whose hero-worshipping son doesn’t realise what a self-serving prat he is.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2019

“Jealous of what? He wants to make a prat of himself in front of the whole school, does he?”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling