uppity

The man he persuaded to join the club when Rangers were getting uppity in 2016 and needed putting back in a box.

The household was vegetarian before this was trendy or socially acceptable, and yet not in an uppity way.

From myriad vectors, media outlets put women in their place for being uppity, incompetent, or vulgar.

For much of that time—in letters, newspapers, books, and speeches—many white people commonly described enslaved African Americans as shiftless or lazy, disrespectful or “uppity,” and ignorant.

An uppity woman refusing to bend the knee when he tells her to is something he simply cannot abide.