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
Nobody liked Dr. Harmon much; she was the kind of stuck-up professional who looked down her nose at everyone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2023
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
“I don’t. I didn’t go to a stuck-up private school. Where did you get that thing, anyway? It smells.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
