uppishness

Example Sentences

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And the uppishness, I am afraid, is a national fault, Sir; you know our state motto is 'Excelsior.'

From Queechy, Volume II by Warner, Susan

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

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

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.

Ye observe, it was only to p. 322throw cold wayter on the unthrifty flame of a mother’s pride that I said this, and to pull down uppishness from its heathenish temple in the heart, head-foremost. 

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin