uppishness
- a word derived from uppish.
Example Sentences
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And the uppishness, I am afraid, is a national fault, Sir; you know our state motto is 'Excelsior.'
From Queechy, Volume II by Warner, Susan
The husband saw and felt their coldness towards his wife, while Mrs. Phillips filled his ears with complaints of their uppishness, and their disagreeable ways.
From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Spence, Catherine Helen
You'll control this uppishness that's growing on you.
From Hobson's Choice by Brighouse, Harold
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 Strachey, John St. Loe
Ye observe, it was only to throw cold water 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, written by himself by Moir, David Macbeth
