| 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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| 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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| However, the Beckhams tend to get a bit stroppy if anyone dares wonder if their marriage is in trouble. |
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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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| When I interviewed him by telephone a few years ago, he sounded not simply shy or stroppy but downright unhappy. |
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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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| 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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| It's like a university tutorial conducted not by the Professor but by a stroppy student. |
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| Watch out for irritability, being more stroppy with other people and not sleeping very well. |
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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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| 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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| Then the woman this morning got stroppy because I expected a free breakfast. |
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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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| All the kids were unspeakably cute even when they were being stroppy. |
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| When Elizabeth DeShong's stroppy Hermia let fly at Kate Royal's bewildered Helena, the atmosphere crackled with tension. |
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| Even though they sometimes were, they were also stroppy teenagers, giggly toddlers … just regular children. |
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| You've been very unhappy and as a result become willful and stroppy. |
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| Complaints about stroppy, belligerent, blood-sucking GP receptionists top the list of rising grievances about local practices. |
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| Now and then an artist will get stroppy and strain at the leash of sponsorship, stopping to pee against the wrong lamp post or bite the hand that feeds her. |
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| Luckily for him there's no one better at throwing a hissy fit than the stroppy, sentimental songsmith. |
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| Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so. |
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| While Hannah quickly readopts the attitude of stroppy teenager, she's reminded just how alien small-town life is to her. |
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| First, while ADHD is a recognised condition, all ordinary children are going to see is stroppy ones being allowed to push in. |
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| No learning lines by heart, no rehearsals, no one seemingly in charge: just four stroppy students sitting round a table, talking a lot, smoking and reading texts. |
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| So the main point of the ordinances seems to be to signal that the government does not intend to be stymied by a stroppy parliament. Mr Modi can at least point to one parliamentary landmark. |
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| Some committee chairmen notably Margaret Hodge, a stroppy Labour MP at the public accounts committee have become minor celebrities. This has given rise to some radical ambitions among the rejected. |
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| Words are exchanged and stroppy Tracy flounces off complaining that she feels used. |
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| He then got stroppy and said, 'You are not taking your dog down there, we will find you different seats. |
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| This dystopian future feels like a place we've visited many times before, and the prospect of Earth being repopulated by stroppy American teens is a pretty terrifying one. |
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| Big dogs, small dogs, stroppy dogs, soppy dogs, hairy dogs and bald dogs. |
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| This could be down to a lack of passion between the imperious Antony and a stroppy Cleopatra or simply a deliberate decision by director Michael Boyd. |
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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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