uppishness
Example Sentences
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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
The fair name and fame of Hobson have been outraged by members of Hobson's family, and uppishness has done it.
From Hobson's Choice by Brighouse, Harold
There's been a gradual increase of uppishness towards me.
From Hobson's Choice by Brighouse, Harold
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
The worst faults I had in my prime were conceit and uppishness, but they only came from my ignorance.
From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.