How To Use Stroppy In A Sentence
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If you wear it to muck out the horses, I might get stroppy.
Times, Sunday Times
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A mother I knew was going through a really unpleasant time with a stroppy teenage son.
Positive Parent Power
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Much imaginative capering ensues as our stroppy young heroine comes of age through the time-honoured route of folly, emergency driving lessons and sexual awakening at the hands of Robert Sheehan the gobby Irish one from Misfits, who plays snoggable townie borrower Spiller as a tearaway in a red biker jacket.
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He is part stroppy trade unionist, part renaissance man with his broad range of interests from media work to hotels to coaching.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like a university tutorial conducted not by the Professor but by a stroppy student.
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One intention of the season, in the words of the powers that be, was to "emancipate" John from his mother, but his stroppy teenager act whenever the subject of Riley came up made him less, not more sympathetic.
DVD Times
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Linnaeus dubbed blackthorn Prunus spinosa because everything about it is prickly, tart, sour and generally stroppy.
Wildwood
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Sometimes these old folk can get really stroppy.
The Sun
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A stroppy stand-off ensued with security, who cut the electricity after she climbed the rigging.
The Sun
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Sometimes these old folk can get really stroppy.
The Sun
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Don't get stroppy with me it's not my fault!
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After said party, back at the parents, Andy got really stroppy with me because I wasn't hungry even though he was starving.
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There must be easier ways of embezzling money than having to drain the bank accounts of a couple of stroppy kids.
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The truth is that Nick Clegg is not really the person who most aggrieves stroppy Tory MPs.
Stroppy Tories seem to have forgotten they didn't actually win | Andrew Rawnsley
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Sarah is stroppy, opinionated and interfering.
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The only course of action that I can see is for the parent to be able to impose their will on the stroppy teenager without fear of prosecution.
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The gas people haven't called to repair the cooker so I shall have to get stroppy with them.
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Talking to the Evening Standard, Sally Bercow, 40, admitted drinking to excess most evenings, engaging in one-night stands and being "stroppy".
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She also argued that descriptions of her as "stroppy" reflected a double standard in the treatment of male and female politicians.
New Statesman
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Marina is the superficially assured yet vulnerable one, naughty, stroppy, self-serving and extrovert, rebelling against her unstable home life.
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A mother I knew was going through a really unpleasant time with a stroppy teenage son.
Positive Parent Power
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‘Hawick people are very stroppy,’ says Barnes.
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The gas people haven't called to repair the cooker so I shall have to get stroppy with them.
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The obligatory returning auditionee was Michael Lewis, the stroppy Jackson impersonator from last year.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Full marks must go to Stroppy Cow, who, somehow, managed to fall sideways as she introduced herself with a hiccup and a glass in each hand.
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Like when he receives a phone call in the middle of a life-saving operation to say his stroppy teenage daughter is waiting at the airport for him.
The Sun
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And getting stroppy is not going to work. on January 16, 2008 at 10: 10 am | Reply plod999
Cross and Rude. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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It's like a university tutorial conducted not by the Professor but by a stroppy student.
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No, actually, I'll take stroppy little Eva over the ‘deep and spiritual’ Yaya or Amanda any day.
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You don't have to be a millionaire to come here, but if you want to hang out with stroppy supermodels, it probably helps.
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If you wear it to muck out the horses, I might get stroppy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like when he receives a phone call in the middle of a life-saving operation to say his stroppy teenage daughter is waiting at the airport for him.
The Sun
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He got really stroppy when I ignored him.
The Sun
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perhaps they should have sister establishment in Edinburgh called 'stroppy'!
Sunny train trip
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I think it was the best trip we've ever had, I didn't get stroppy at all (I am not good away from home without my bed - which is the best bed in all the world, actually), Mr Monkey had a 24 hour gym to go to in the hotel (always good, it keeps him quiet) and there was a starbucks in the lobby, so my tall, decaff, vanilla, soy latte addiction was fed.
A (very) brief account of my trip to Florida
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When I interviewed him by telephone a few years ago, he sounded not simply shy or stroppy but downright unhappy.
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Everything must go his way or he gets stroppy.
The Sun
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I was starting to do a caesarean section on a really stroppy cow who was kicking and thrashing about all over the place.
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He got really stroppy when I ignored him.
The Sun
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Personally I would rather be termed offensive, rude or crass than "stroppy".
Cactus Kate
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Everything must go his way or he gets stroppy.
The Sun
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And if they wished to get stroppy, they could force extradition which would undoubtedly raise quite a ruckus in the press.
CORMORANT
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Then the woman this morning got stroppy because I expected a free breakfast.
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Every time I had some form of prize or something he really got very stroppy about it.
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All the kids were unspeakably cute even when they were being stroppy.
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He got stroppy after being ‘forcibly ushered out’ but did not use any industrial language.
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‘She's a stroppy one all right, and she will play to the crowd,’ she added.
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I was an argumentative, stroppy drunk.
The Sun
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Ms Smith did say, however, that she had been annoyed by being described as "stroppy" on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, adding she had never heard a man described as that.
IcCoventry
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Don't get stroppy with me—it isn't my fault!
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And will this leave Lyle cast as the stroppy adolescent?
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This is another way of saying he's very stroppy.
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Sounds great, but to be honest, given the choice, I think I'd rather deal with the stroppy teenager - particularly if the subject is male.
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You've been very unhappy and as a result become willful and stroppy.
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He is part stroppy trade unionist, part renaissance man with his broad range of interests from media work to hotels to coaching.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I mentioned it, Cheryl got kind of stroppy, and moved us to another room which was like a coffee room or a public library - people everywhere!!!
Sheepdip Diary Entry
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His stroppy attention-seeking reaches new levels with each passing day, as do his half-hearted demands to leave Celebrity Big Brother.
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Watch out for irritability, being more stroppy with other people and not sleeping very well.
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If you can't keep the lid on a couple of stroppy 14-year-olds, you are in the wrong job.
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He is part stroppy trade unionist, part renaissance man with his broad range of interests from media work to hotels to coaching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ben Mills - Reports this week suggested that Ben Mills spent the week flouncing around like a giant stroppy girl because he thinks Leona is going to win X Factor.
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