uppish
Example Sentences
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As a young man, after Harvard and emigration to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, he might, he admits, have appeared “a shade uppish.”
From New York Times
And of course, there are some flash expressions that have held over—and evolved into mainstream speech—like sans and uppish.
From Scientific American
Which some servants are awfully uppish, and thinks themselves no end of nobs.
From Project Gutenberg
Whatever I do, or propose doing, I am met and stopped by those confounded uppish notions of hers, to which everything else must be kept subordinate.
From Project Gutenberg
If Hiram got one good licking he wouldn’t be quite so uppish.
From Project Gutenberg
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