uppish
adjective
arrogant; condescending; uppity.
uppishness
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a word derived from
uppish.
Example Sentences
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The fair name and fame of Hobson have been outraged by members of Hobson's family, and uppishness has done it.
From Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse
There's been a gradual increase of uppishness towards me.
From Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse
They should not have allowed themselves to assume that the "uppishness" was due to want of that humility which they rightly expected in their pupils.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
Ye observe, it was only to p. 322throw cold wayter on the unthrifty flame of a mother’s pride that I said this, and to pull down uppishness from its heathenish temple in the heart, head-foremost.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Charles Martin Hardie
This would trouble and irritate some people; the sublime equanimity of the hired boatman under the ordeal affords us a beautiful lesson against ambition and uppishness.
From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
