uppishness
Example Sentences
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Ye observe, it was only to throw cold water 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, written by himself by David Macbeth Moir
There's been a gradual increase of uppishness towards me.
From Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse
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 F. Anstey
It is this ignorant uppishness that does the mischief.
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
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 Robert Cortes Holliday
