uppishness

Example Sentences

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They should not have allowed themselves to assume that the "uppishness" was due to want of that humility which they rightly expected in their pupils.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

To possess but one of each makes 'em puffed up an' pride-blown, an' engenders a mootual uppishness which before all is over is shore to man'fest itse'f in war.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert

Keyes felt a disposition in authority to put down any subordinate uppishness of feeling possibly occasioned by doings outside the line of business.

From Turns about Town by Holliday, Robert Cortes

It is a harmless vanity enough, and especially pardonable in Ventimore's case, when it was so desirable to correct any tendency to "uppishness" on the part of the Jinnee.

From The Brass Bottle by Anstey, F.

His bad temper had disappeared, but his "uppishness" had, if possible, increased.

From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)