uppishness

NOUN

impudence

Synonyms

STRONG

assumption assurance audaciousness audacity boldness brashness brass brazenness cheek cheekiness chutzpah cockiness crust defiance discourtesy disrespect effrontery face familiarity forwardness gall guts gutsiness hardiness impertinence incivility insolence moxie nerve overconfidence pertness presumptuousness pushiness rudeness sauciness shamelessness spunk stuff temerity

WEAK

disrespectfulness impudency nerviness sassiness

Antonyms

STRONG

care carefulness caution cowardice doubt fear humility manners meekness modesty politeness regard reserve respect shyness timidity

Example Sentences

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It is this ignorant uppishness that does the mischief.

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Shaw, Bernard

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

This would trouble and irritate some people; the sublime equanimity of the hired boatman under the ordeal affords us a beautiful lesson against ambition and uppishness.

From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

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

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