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  • adverb In a bratty way.

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Examples

  • There was a period a couple years ago when Alex was traveling a lot for work and I hated every single second of it, even–quite brattily–the parts where he got fancy rental cars and stayed in “Heavenly Beds” which he still does not shut up about, even today and got to eat awesome meals and expense them.

    chicken with forty cloves of garlic | smitten kitchen 2007

  • Because the writers of "Lost" are a lot like John Locke, who keeps brattily insisting that no one should be able to tell him what he can and can't do.

    Politics By Heather Havrilesky 2010

  • Saffron is a brattily ungrateful student for some time, but she does come around.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Maybe they will later, when it is convenient, but for now Jenny is stuck in the house, frowning brattily at her Rufus and his Lily, and frowning sexily at her kid from Air Bud.

    Gawker Richard Lawson 2010

  • Because the writers of "Lost" are a lot like John Locke, who keeps brattily insisting that no one should be able to tell him what he can and can't do.

    Politics By Heather Havrilesky 2010

  • Sam Waterson's brattily adolescent Hamlet at Lincoln Center on a steeply raked stage with the great Irene Worth as Gertrude, Jane Alexander and David Birney in a Broadway revival of

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2009

  • Sam Waterson's brattily adolescent Hamlet at Lincoln Center on a steeply raked stage with the great Irene Worth as Gertrude, Jane Alexander and David Birney in a Broadway revival of

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2009

  • Farber's essays are almost brattily smart, alluring and written in a style thankfully impossible to copy, "writes

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Farber's essays are almost brattily smart, alluring and written in a style thankfully impossible to copy, "writes

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Farber's essays are almost brattily smart, alluring and written in a style thankfully impossible to copy, "writes

    GreenCine Daily 2008

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