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uppity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective uppity has 1 sense
- uppity(s = adj.all) overweening - presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down" Derived form noun uppityness1
THESAURUS
uppity
arrogant, audacious, big, brash, bumptious, cold, condescending, contumelious, cool, disdainful, domineering, familiar, forward, haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toity, hubristic, insolent, insulting, lofty, obtrusive, overbearing, overpresumptuous, overweening, patronizing, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, proud, purse-proud, pushful, pushing, pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, stuck-up, superior, toplofty, uppish, upstage
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