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• s  obstreperous

• French President Jacques Chirac in particular is now under pressure to give his stroppy voters their say, and they may well say non.
• But the reality is that we can be as stroppy and petulant as the best of them.
• I watched him handle schoolkids, stroppy doctors and nurses at a hospital, a big audience of health workers at a town meeting, a thousand-person rally.

• bolshy

Quotes

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• Gurinder Chadha in Glasgow Daily Record
  Movie director Chadha says: "We have a wonderful character that anyone who is a stroppy teenager, or has ever been a stroppy teenager, will completely relate to and understand how parents, teachers and in fact the world conspires against you just as...
• Attila the Hun in Shoreham Today
  As one loud, colourful, stroppy, poetically barbed, politically outspoken and hard-drinking Sussex wordsmith, I identify a great deal with Belloc,said Shoreham-based Attila. "In fact, it was Belloc who first inspired me to write poetry and...