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stuck-up

[stuhk-uhp] / ˈstʌkˈʌp /


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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

“Golf is kind of a stuck-up sport,” Rodriquez told the Saturday Evening Post in 1989.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

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

She is notable for playing a stuck-up new friend of Dorothy’s in a third-season episode.

From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2022

“Nobody ever understands you, not with all your stuck-up words. Like, you just want to make everyone else feel stupid. You think you’re so smart.”

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea




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