Brattish

He tells Young that he regrets his "spoilt and brattish" behaviour when he won a Bafta in 2008 for Gavin & Stacey. ❋ Unknown (2012)

When Lleyton Hewitt burst on to the scene as a snarling, brattish teenager with his baseball cap on back to front, Wimbledon did not know quite what to make of him. ❋ Ben Smith (2011)

The first episode told the story – of, as even a fule will know through cultural osmosis, the fallout from a family barbecue that ends with a brattish three-year-old, whose parents refuse to discipline him, being slapped by someone else – from the host Hector's point of view. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Earlier in the week, Harvey cleverly addressed England's on and off love affair with Andy Murray in the poem "one of ours": if ever he's brattish or brutish or skittish he's Scottish but if he looks fittish and his form is hottish he's British ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's kind of lead to this kind of arrogant, brattish sort of side of Arthur, which is a bit of a front he puts on, because he can't be seen involving himself with commoners and servants and what have you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is a brattish, clever amorality about Google that allows it to censor the pages on its Chinese service without the slightest self doubt, store vast quantities of unnecessary information about every Google search, and menace the delicate instruments of democratic scrutiny. ❋ Andres Guadamuz (2009)

But Susanna's instincts are often wrong, and it's to Ryder's credit that she shows us both the admirable and the brattish sides of Susanna's character. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now even that is too martial for me to slip into everyday language, it's off putting and air-force brattish sounding. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

And when someone catches him at it, he lies about it, just like a brattish child. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I cannot help but be reminded of the Kite incident when his dim horsey side kick was similarly brattish having been subject to entirely justified criticism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The inspector had been just about to glance into one of my bags, a purely formal inspection, I think-when my brattish brother deliberately stirred things up. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1963)

We don't care whether it's an Ofsted-registered children's club, carefully screened for brattish Brandons and semi-feral Abbies or a roll of gaffer tape in a shed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Winehouse was obviously nervous, exhibiting the slightly insecure demeanour of a brattish teenager, alternately blasé and sulky. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The first episodes show a woman stumbling between responses: refusing punishing treatment that might prolong her life slightly; cartwheeling down corridors; deciding not to tell her family about the diagnosis; flashing her doctor; keeping her juvenile husband at arm's length; and trying desperately, skittishly, to fix her teenage son's brattish behaviour before it's too late. ❋ Kira Cochrane (2011)

Bloodthirsty 30K, brattish lady-brute Bones and silent hunter Pepper will be Kozak's key chums for 14 missions, spanning 12-14 hours, and will be playable co-operatively. ❋ Unknown (2010)