uppishness
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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 W. Herbert Dunton
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 John St. Loe Strachey
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 Charles Martin Hardie
There's been a gradual increase of uppishness towards me.
From Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse
The husband saw and felt their coldness towards his wife, while Mrs. Phillips filled his ears with complaints of their uppishness, and their disagreeable ways.
From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence
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