Definitions

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  • noun The state or condition of being bratty.

Etymologies

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bratty +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I recently picked fights with both my sisters and it struck me, as I voiced my mea culpas, that my brattiness is a result of caring about them again, after years of focusing on friends and lovers instead.

    Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • I think his brattiness actually makes things interesting since Tim Drake and Dick Grayson are both such goodie goodys.

    Review: World’s Finest #2 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • He acquiesced and said nothing about my brattiness, which was unlike him.

    Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011

  • It's been a long time, but many of that album's most enduring qualities — its brassy brattiness and insouciant sneer among them — remain very much in Ms. Phair's arsenal.

    A Musical Plan of Attack Andy Battaglia 2011

  • Considers the Web to still be "bratty" and hopes that the brattiness will be kept as more order and control is brought to the Web.

    Internet News: Internet Culture Archives 2009

  • I didn't harbor wildness to unleash and be tamed -- brattiness at times, but not wildness.

    Molly Magid Hoagland: Wild Thing 2009

  • By toning down her brattiness in front of others, as Id asked her to several times at last weeks event, she earned the right to attend the next party.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • By toning down her brattiness in front of others, as Id asked her to several times at last weeks event, she earned the right to attend the next party.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • Wuz reddy tu moob tu Turkey when mai daddeh wuz stayshunned here…. my ‘Air Force’ brattiness – let mee sho yu!

    u has betraid my tiny trust - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • She was trying not to lose the urge that was uniquely her own, brattiness, joy, jokes, willfulness.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

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