uppity

Example Sentences

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The wealthiest and most international city in America, its grand mansions and comfortable houses would obviously be useful as a base for an invading army that was just beginning a campaign against uppity colonials.

From Washington Post

The word “uppity” hovers in the air, unsaid but unavoidable.

From Washington Post

Thomas accused Biden’s committee of conducting “a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.”

From Reuters

"It wasn't the norm," she said and remembers people in her home town thinking her university ambitions in the 1980s were "a bit uppity".

From BBC

The hip-hop song covers an uppity luncheon where retired philanthropists trade scathing insults with self-serving politicians.

From Los Angeles Times