How To Use Ratty In A Sentence
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I looked him up and down, taking in the unshaven cheeks, the missing button on his shirt, the ratty cuffs on his jeans.
NO BODY
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Leave that ratty plasterwork to get rattier.
Times, Sunday Times
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_ That's what I do want to know, zoa come along -- Woo ye though -- Missus, let's behave pratty -- Zur if you pleaze, Dame and I will let you walk along wi 'us.
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
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It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool.
A List For Australia Day
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The claim is made that there were several flaws in this case, and for years there has been a concerted attempt to declare that the case made against Hanratty was ‘unsafe.’
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Hanratty said the hotel was in turnkey condition which, combined with the profit-earnings ratio, made it a good investment.
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Ok, off the soapbox Mr M, it's late and I'm tired and ratty.
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Busted heralded a sea change over the past two years by bringing the staccato guitars and bratty vim of American punk-pop groups into the stale world of boy bands.
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Cages holding lumps in ratty jackets lined the opposite wall.
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Someone should tell him his bratty behaviour is not acceptable.
The Sun
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When James found her she was just some ratty bird dog on the side of some country back road.
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Then there was the James Hanratty A6 murder case in the
An Interview with Minette Walters
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While I'm in a bit of a ratty mood, does anybody want to have a guess about which smug London-based website e-mailed me overnight?
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Once they get grubby or ratty on the bottom, turn the hem under and rehem.
Berks county news
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If you've ever asked yourself who stays in ratty motels off the highway next to malls, with Walmarts as the high shopping, here is the answer.
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Ideally there will be lyrics about their ratty bathrobes at some point, but I'm not picky, cause hey, I'm all about the glitz.
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Much of the press's obsession has concerned the band's bratty street-gang comedy.
Globe and Mail
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Did he write it before breakfast and so his low blood sugar levels made him a bit ratty?
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I felt cold in my ratty old nightshirt with the holes in it.
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By her features they were slim and small under that old ratty coat.
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Considers the Web to still be "bratty" and hopes that the brattiness will be kept as more order and control is brought to the Web.
Internet News: Internet Culture Archives
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His lips peel back to make way for a giggle, a ratty staccato, something up from a drain.
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Their bratty young daughter throws the car keys into a grassy field.
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She whispers, ‘I'm a little cold,’ and I grab a ratty old sleeping bag I have in the truck for this very purpose.
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Retain a local real estate expert to find them housing - somebody who you trust will only show them nice apartments, not ratty dumps, and pay all the broker fees.
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He used the next field over with these ratty little kids and they were all running, throwing this one little ball around.
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‘Hmmph, you're in a ratty mood’ my mum just said.
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Labour MP gets ratty over political vermin quip
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I'm just glad I used my ratty old duffel bag and not my Pradas, Guccis and Louis Vuittons…
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Used and ratty is fine as I am not going to use it for pasta.
Pasta Machine needed
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It makes me ratty now and again, and I say, ‘Pull your finger out and do it quickly; don't do it in Glyndebourne time, do it fast.’
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Years later I foolishly sold off my collection of ratty, well thumbed copies.
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That is largely because in number after number, a dream ensemble led by a lithe and charismatic Aaron Tveit as Frank, Tom Wopat as his con man, boozy dad, and Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty, the shleppy cop who takes him in, dazzles.
Regina Weinreich: Con Me If You Can: The Broadway Musical
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Zur, I have argufied the topic, and it wou'dn't be pratty -- zo I can't.
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
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I open the door to see him standing at the bars of his crib, sucking his nukie, ratty blanket in one hand, beloved and even rattier Bunny in the other.
Left Neglected
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The ratty, dark layer underneath ... your ideal basecoat.
Times, Sunday Times
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They star as Andy and Melissa, two bratty childhood sweethearts.
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His show's roughly two dozen pieces offered up his standard menu of hectic and deliberately crude brushwork on ratty-looking unstretched canvases.
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As the world's least patient person, I get extremely ratty when the till operator is working in slow motion.
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All one has to do, they think, is to wear ratty clothes, smear one's face with dirt to look darker, wrap one's arms in red stained gauze, then go begging on the streets, and the money rolls in.
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As such, treat his Lazy faiLurE to finish it properly as 'languid skill', award a free-kick and await vitriolic abuse both on the pitch with his spit in your face and post-match from behind the safety of a shiny suit with his ratty 'tache hidden behind a foam microphone.
You are the Ref: Sian Massey
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The sort of celebrity enjoyed by Parker and her contemporaries was a far cry from the often-bratty variety that emerged during the supermodel era of the 1980s and '90s, embodied by Linda ( "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day") Evangelista and maid-assaulter Naomi Campbell.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Suzy Parker, The World's First Supermodel (PHOTOS)
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Representing the O'Hara Foundation in Britain, improbably, is a spoiled, bratty young girl, Scarlett O'Hara (?!?), who spends most of her time being obnoxious or putting the moves on Ray, who proves to be quite the shrinking violet ( my voice-over is being done by a woman, okay?
Archive 2007-11-01
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Or you've seen him on a bratty panel, purring while all around him shout.
Times, Sunday Times
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Literally, it's just been a continual barrage of stories of finding beheaded bodies and unearthed graves," said John Hanratty , the company's chief marketing officer.
Mexico Tourism Feels Chill of Ongoing Drug Violence
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On the court she is bratty, unbelievably noisy and in my view is clearly trying to psyche out her opponent.
The Sun
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Suddenly, Tveit is free to address the audience, introduce characters like his folks and his girl even when they're not going to appear in the real story until much later and even get interrupted by Hanratty with some pestering questions.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Catch Me If You Can" Dazzles Broadway
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Greedy beggars !'he observed , making for the provender.'Why did not you invite me, Ratty?
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Madhani had traveled extensively through the dangers of Iraq — unarmed, unguarded, in ratty old cars — and he knew that many apparently random attacks had hidden histories behind them.
Welcome to the Green Zone
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Beside it a ratty toothbrush was propped up in a plastic glass.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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Beth was my best friend and stuck by me unlike my other outcast friends who think I'm a bratty popular kid now.
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Another big seller in the US is the Meade made by the Bunratty company.
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The desks will be gone, along with the bright lights, the square tiled floors, the walls, decorations, chalkboards, and all the markings of the people I remember best in our bratty stages of life.
Where Were You? by Maria Night
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The outer child is a bratty, angry drama queen who is responsible for unhealthful and unwanted behavior, according to the book.
Unruly behavior of 'outer child' is target of psychotherapist's self-help book
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I used to get ratty and shout ‘read a book’ whenever I heard a child moan that he was bored.
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Flustered, she declines, and the whole thing is seen by Henderson's ex-boyfriend, a ratty bad-boy type played by Robert Carlyle.
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Felbridge was long-haired, in his late thirties, with a ratty fur coat and plimsolls that were flapping open, but a good photographer.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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I leaned into the soft cushions of the ratty old furniture as the phone rang.
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He can walk into the chicest and fanciest restaurant wearing his favorite old ratty T-shirt and jeans and nobody bats an eye.
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Cold, bare concrete floor, one to two small, ratty wool blankets.
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Hidden amidst the towering buildings at the outermost edge of the city lay a small, ratty karaoke bar that seems to seek shelter from the raging thunderstorm, its shingled roof rattling harshly.
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Even if it was a ratty old couch, it was still pretty comfortable.
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The young actress manages, at the same time, to underact and overdo playing a grieving yet bratty young girl.
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She loved the bratty little boy that grew up into a bratty man with his share of drug issues.
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I'll use it once this one gets too ratty and old to be used anymore.
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Now as to your death threat angle, even it you're right and I have my doubts - the term "jeered" doesn't seem to connote any physical threat or death wish, there's still a huge disconnect between bratty kids shouting threats and having them mauled by bears.
Bad Boy Bible Study
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Unfortunately, this episode was a bit of a snooze-fest in terms of the crazy and the bratty which is disappointing.
TVgasm
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Couldn't get comfortable in bed, but managed to get to sleep, and I've woken up with the pain as bad as ever and feeling very ratty.
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The session was held at 2263 Mission Street in San Francisco, a ratty storefront theater in a rundown area of the city that had a folding grid gate barring the entrance from the public.
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Maybe she's different now, but bratty people?
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps they enjoy hearing me sound all ratty and scratchy, trying to be polite in the name of friendship.
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I got told today to stop being so ratty to customers, even when they are at their most ignorant.
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Lately, he said, Kimani has been "bratty" and noisier than usually because her mother is weaning her from nursing.
The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS
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The production will tell the classic story of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger trying to overcome the evil ferrets, weasels and stoats who threaten to overrun the riverbank.
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I slipped into a faded pair of blue jeans and a ratty old t-shirt.
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And we had him clothed in this ugly pink nightgown, this noxiously ratty looking dirty blonde wig, red marabou, and orange fuzzy slippers.
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Ratty AK, Das NP The in vitro effects of several flavonoids on nonenzymatic lipid peroxidation in the rat brain mitochondria was studied.
Wil's Ebay E-Store
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What a self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, bratty generation of adults we have become.
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Suddenly the ratty old sixties sofa that came with the flat is starting to look quite comfy.
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In the center of the room was a knot of ratty blankets, and torn men's clothes, both dotted with blood.
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I towelled myself dry and slipped into my ratty old flannel pyjamas.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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Her father takes Claire to practice in the Mexican Catholic cemetery, a ratty sandpile decorated with faded plastic flowers and clacking pinwheels, colorful santos and candles, a place her father calls the boneyard.
Some Fun
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The coats range from cheap ratty rabbit (marketed in some quarters as "lapin," which is French for bunny) to the occasional mink with the requisite satin lining and elaborate monogramming.
Annie Groer: Washington Brings Out The Fur
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Remember, the mop of hair I was sporting was essentially a very, very long men's haircut, so it did have a tendency to look a little ratty on occasion.
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He has lost his right testicle and his luxuriant mullet but has somehow managed to cling on to his ratty little moustache.
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Which is why, on its first run, to London, it was like a blue and white Pied Piper trailing a stream of ratty hatches in its wake.
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I'll be tired and ratty today, and fine tomorrow.
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I had a ratty orange sweater that I loved to death in high school and I accidentally wore it on Saint Patrick's Day.
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I see a fine-looking young woman chasing after some bratty kid.
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Could you elaborate on the data processing aspects of the investigation analysis such as the geographic information system analysis of the debris and drilling down into the so called ratty data, and if you're going to build a database to help you analyze the evidence you're collecting?
CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2003
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The small, ratty man ran down the pavement, his wife at his heels, and darted past a small ice cream parlor.
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That means that a lot of nerds are struggling for their next paycheck, living in ratty apartments and working in crappy jobs, and they don’t even realize that the reason they’re poor is because people find them offputting.
Overcoming Your Nerd-Dom: Part 1 In A Possibly-Continuing Series
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I was sick the whole time, and my sister was being extra bratty.
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Remind me not to read things when I'm tired and ratty, as I am prone to misinterpretation.
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The former dramatic soprano dresses for the camera, cheeks feverish with rouge, a multipointed jester's hat and veil on her head, bejeweled hands, ratty fur stole.
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Also invited were my two four-year-old, bratty twin cousins.
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Mrs Kulass put on a ratty fur coat, a shabby felt hat, and put her hands inside an old muff.
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I am terribly hungry, and I've got a lot to talk about with Ratty here.
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But if you are in ratty jeans, and your hair is a mess, you might take it as an insult.
Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
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Nothing, darling, Just wanted to say I'm sorry I got ratty again.
LOSING IT
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There were no large buildings here, only trailer parks and ratty houses.
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Before she came on this trip she would have seen a stick-thin girl, with ratty blonde hair, blotchy skin and bags under her eyes.
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I'm negotiating a new contract with the brattiest of the bratty socialites.
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It's especially difficult not to like it if you dig bratty girl vocals, fuzzy guitars and snotty lyrics about teenage life.
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She couldn't get conformable to begin with and then just got over tired and ratty.
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What gives these epidermal exhibitionists the right to force everyone else in the Republic to eyeball their blubbery thighs and ratty chest hair?
Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On!
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And as I've already mentioned, the frustration that accompanies dissatisfaction leads, more often than not, to "bratty" behaviors and increased stress.
Alex Pattakos: How To Tame Your "Inner Brat"
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I sat on my bed, oohing and aahing over every tiny piece of adorable newborn clothing - the little kimonos, the wee little hats, the tiny little tee shirts - until I pulled out a ratty Ace bandage.
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I'm pretty sure he did, too, although I think he's less outgoing than I am, so I felt kind of bratty for talking to other people while we were out playing pool.
I Take Requests, Apparently
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You can't read body language on the radio, but if ‘voice language’ is anything to go by, Tamaki was getting a tad ratty.
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We're seriously excited about the return of this action-packed show about a bratty billionaire-turned-vigilante.
The Sun
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She took the torn overalls, the ratty dresses, shorts, jeans, skirts, shirts out and tossed them into the hallway.
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So what can we hear now, the morning after the rush has worn off, now that we've feeling ratty and irritable?
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I grabbed a ratty towel from the outhouse bathroom and jogged away in the direction of the creek.
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When I am sounding tired and ratty, stop demanding favours.
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He was dressed in ratty jeans and an old green field jacket.
Why Life is Now More Complicated
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No matter how ratty or dog-eared or water-stained the book, it will find a happy home with me, at least temporarily.
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When Hanratty responds that Frank isn't going to put on a show for God's sake, of course that's exactly what he does.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Catch Me If You Can" Dazzles Broadway
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But if not, please please please, whatever you do, DO NOT blame the teacher when this kind of bratty behavior causes her to have trouble in class.
Snapshots of a temper tantrum.
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Wherever are you ( hic ) going to ( hic ), Ratty?'cried the tearful Mole, looking up in alarm.
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He is also probably quite ratty at this time because he is moulting.
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Thank god for foul-smelling German army jackets bought in moments in weakness from ratty markets in Berlin.
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Indeed, the hobbits' Shire may be just another version of nostalgic English pastoralism, as godless and self-sufficient as the world of Badger, Mole and Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows.
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Both characters are very real and quite maddening; Sibel in particular is astonishingly selfish and bratty, proving what a fine line it is between a force of nature and a total loony.
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The production will tell the classic story of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger trying to overcome the evil ferrets, weasels and stoats who threaten to overrun the riverbank.
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When I shave my hair in a Mohawk, toss on a pair of cut-offs and a ratty U.W. Madison t-shirt, however, I'm instantly recognizable as a gringo.
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He was dressed in a ratty T-shirt and running shorts.
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She had put on her junky jeans that had holes and tears in it along with her ratty old black T-shirt.
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I pulled up in front of an old and ratty home/office.
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A DNA sample taken from the exhumed body of the A6 murderer James Hanratty has reportedly confirmed his guilt.
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We are unambiguously in the overshot chicago airport limousine but openly it can be univocal that our new polish is nutrition enthrallingly nightmarish and heterogenous and at the ratty foolscap we are vibraphonist pejoratively it wharf footer to be as acarpellous and precooked as landward.
Rational Review
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Mr. Butz, 44, plays Carl Hanratty, an FBI agent who pursues Abagnale with Javert-like fervor, ultimately morphing into something of a father figure to him.
This Time He's Not the Con Man
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Pulling up in front of a ratty looking house on the poor side of town.
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His 14 ratty rooms are among the most luxurious accommodations for visitors to Ghadames' ancient town of mud houses and dark, twisting passageways.
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A soft smile crossed his ratty countenance as he pulled up the rear of the patrol.
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Indeed, the hobbits' Shire may be just another version of nostalgic English pastoralism, as godless and self-sufficient as the world of Badger, Mole and Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows.
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Never mind the stupid knee-jerk reaction of mom and dad, never mind the pretty/rich = good, ratty / poor = bad dichotomy.
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It is impossible not to watch the film without remembering what will happen, but then this is as much about Max and his world as it is about a ratty little Austrian whom Liselore finds repulsive.
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Broken down trailers and ratty houses lined the street.
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a ratty old overcoat
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He's the guy who perhaps lives in the tiny studio apartment next door - that has mice - and he's got one good suit, but it's kinda ratty.
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Inside, two ratty couches and an old rug furnish the main meeting area.
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I would much rather dine in a restaurant with a happy, thriving family than a bunch of judgmental people straight from the Victorian era who sanctimoniously tell nursing moms to keep their "bratty" infants home.
Undefined
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The makeup-spackled eyes, big ratty hair, tattooed arms, ugly scowl ...
Is Lady Gaga Turning Into Amy Winehouse? (PHOTOS, POLL)
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Perhaps they enjoy hearing me sound all ratty and scratchy, trying to be polite in the name of friendship.
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The cruiser was pulled up against the curb just inches from Donny's ratty high-top sneakers.
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Her father takes Claire to practice in the Mexican Catholic cemetery, a ratty sandpile decorated with faded plastic flowers and clacking pinwheels, colorful santos and candles, a place her father calls the boneyard.
Some Fun
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In her work, she has found a common theme that when women shared their voice and their gifts as young girls, they were often told they were "bratty" or "showing off.
Tabby Biddle: The Problem of Women's Self-Expression: A Scientific Perspective
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How can I keep my suit from getting all ratty so fast?
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It doesn't have any of these snarly, ratty, great farfisa sounds that the real instrument did.
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He had a brief glimpse of a scruffy-looking guy with ratty hair and even rattier coat.
Masked
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Tomm was a bit ratty on Christmas eve but he seems fine, just a bit sniffly at the moment.
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He has been visibly ratty about his inability to get the media to follow his agenda.
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And while it might seem kind of bratty to complain about salary shortfalls in this time of economic crisis when so many are flat out of jobs and have given up looking, the fact is that our state and national future relies on a well-educated, conscientiously trained populace.
Shira Tarrant: California College: Up in Smoke?
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We're both sleep deprived and getting really ratty with one another.
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So cranky and ratty was I, the friend even vowed she would never go shopping with me again - yeah, yeah!
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I grabbed a ratty towel from the outhouse bathroom and jogged away in the direction of the creek.
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The Macross, on the other hand, thinks a bratty teen J-pop idol is a super weapon.
Archive 2009-06-01
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He admits it looks "ratty" - but that has only happened because he has always been so proud of it, and what it represents, that he has worn it into the ground.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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One of these thin, sallow, dyspeptic parties, with deep lines down either side of his mouth, a bristly, jutty little mustache, and ratty little eyes.
The House of Torchy
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She had no taste in fashion and always wore old ratty clothes.
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This is a show so confident in its story that it ends the first act on a quiet note as Butz's Hanratty realizes that the guy he is tracking down is just a kid.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Catch Me If You Can" Dazzles Broadway
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Does she still have those ratty little Yorkshire terrier dogs?
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Considers the Web to still be "bratty" and hopes that the brattiness will be kept as more order and control is brought to the Web.
Internet News: Internet Culture Archives
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The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The sculptor is really prolific, and the photos of the dolls are all in natural settings -- ratty sofas and beaches and such -- giving the impression that the idea is to get one of these things and set it down somewhere where it can glare at you all day.
Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives
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We moved into this ratty space over an electric store downtown [in Manhattan].
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The ratty, dark layer underneath ... your ideal basecoat.
Times, Sunday Times
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While already rightly revered as bratty garage rockers by the time of this track's release, the Kinks truly excelled when singer Ray Davies took a more observational, wry approach to songwriting -- and "Sunny Afternoon" is one of his wriest on record.
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