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Recent Examples of stroppy
Ramaswamy stole a page from Trump’s 2016 playbook, emerging as a stroppy candidate challenging the status quo of Washington.
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Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
All of a sudden the show’s main obsession, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, is no longer a stroppy teenager, and she’s no longer portrayed by Milly Alcock.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
Madison makes for a peculiar heroine; her performance as a realistically stroppy adolescent, in possession of a weariness and cynicism far beyond her years, recalls Karen Kilgariff playing a child in an improv scene.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2022
But even if Brexit reflects Britain’s carefree pensioners—and some evidence suggests that despite being older, Brexit voters were stroppier than average—there is little sign of such an age effect elsewhere.
—The Economist, 11 July 2019
Indeed, a video on AS' website shows the marksman getting extremely stroppy when he is told to conduct some acceleration drills alone while his fellow players get on with another session.
—SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
Dembele is allegedly refusing to return to Dortmund until the situation is resolved by all parties, but the German top flight outfit are standing firm over their stroppy star's stance.
—SI.com, 12 Aug. 2017
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
All of a sudden the show’s main obsession, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, is no longer a stroppy teenager, and she’s no longer portrayed by Milly Alcock.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
Madison makes for a peculiar heroine; her performance as a realistically stroppy adolescent, in possession of a weariness and cynicism far beyond her years, recalls Karen Kilgariff playing a child in an improv scene.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2022
But even if Brexit reflects Britain’s carefree pensioners—and some evidence suggests that despite being older, Brexit voters were stroppier than average—there is little sign of such an age effect elsewhere.
—The Economist, 11 July 2019
Indeed, a video on AS' website shows the marksman getting extremely stroppy when he is told to conduct some acceleration drills alone while his fellow players get on with another session.
—SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
Dembele is allegedly refusing to return to Dortmund until the situation is resolved by all parties, but the German top flight outfit are standing firm over their stroppy star's stance.
—SI.com, 12 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stroppy
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The young girl is petulant and bored at times, playing cards and listening to her grandma’s old-timey records.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
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Cage’s performance in Peggy Sue as the heroine’s petulant, adenoidal, terminally ungrateful high-school boyfriend turned disappointing husband divides audiences to this day.Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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People with anxiety may also feel irritable, tense, or restless, and may have a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom.Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Max was admitted to the hospital after experiencing severe pain in July and was diagnosed with transient synovitis, a condition also referred to as irritable hip.Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2024
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The reporters are grumpy, but the ruse works, and (Sean Murray) and Torres’ (Wilmer Valderrama) scurry across the upstairs hallway carrying roughly 200 pounds of literally dead weight.EW.com, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Where to watch: Apple TV and video on demand 'Goosebumps' (2015) R.L. Stine's beloved series of kids horror books was the inspiration behind this rousing adventure where a couple of teens face a host of unleashed creepers, with an evil dummy and Jack Black channeling Stine as a grumpy literary dad.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
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Even the typically irascible Joy Behar was comparatively tame while expressing her dissatisfaction.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Lewis could be briefly irascible, but his kindness almost always triumphed.Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Why was everyone grouchy after drinking the apple cider?Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
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The movie follows a kid and his friend who dig into the mysteries of a haunted house across the street after the grouchy old man who lived there dies in his yard.Dustin Nelson, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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The film’s co-star, Diane Kruger, plays several roles, notably Karsh’s late wife (seen in flashback) and her snappish veterinarian-turned-dog-groomer sister.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
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Keynes is a snappish but patient listener.Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
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For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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The preternaturally peevish Pentecostal preacher is back and absent as ever.Kristen Baldwin and Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2023
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Patrick is crotchety and dismissive of their overtures at first, but Bob and Jean talk him around with their passionate belief in the project and intriguing early research.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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There are no shaky limbs in Wolfs, though there are some creaky joints, and an Advil joke—because aches and pains are a thing men can joke about, charmingly, while women who do the same run the risk of coming off as crotchety old complainers.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Stroppy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stroppy. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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