stuck-up
Example Sentences
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She leaps on the wall dividing her home and that of her stuck-up neighbors, in heels no less.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
This Netflix holiday romance turns to a classic formula: A blue-collar widower strikes up an improbable romance with a stuck-up heiress betrothed to a cocky himbo.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2022
“Every time you came in, whether you were new or had been there for so long, there was never a stuck-up feeling like you don’t belong.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
She is notable for playing a stuck-up new friend of Dorothy’s in a third-season episode.
From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2022
“Hincty, that’s why. Comes from handling money all day. You notice that? How people who handle money for a living get stuck-up? Like it was theirs instead of yours?”
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
