up-itself

adjective

1. slang.
   pretentious or pompous

Example Sentences

It's the last straw when that lobby also sets up itself as the civility police.

From The Daily Beast

If you're meant to see any more of that purse, it'll kindly look you up itself.

From Project Gutenberg

Mary Cushin: If he did give their names up itself, there was maybe no wrong in it at all.

From Project Gutenberg

Or, rather, it seemed as if in the unregarded silences of this last long talk his mind had made up itself.

From Project Gutenberg

If stopped in the air it will start up itself to travel on without external help.

From Project Gutenberg