uppishness

Keyes felt a disposition in authority to put down any subordinate uppishness of feeling possibly occasioned by doings outside the line of business.

It is a harmless vanity enough, and especially pardonable in Ventimore's case, when it was so desirable to correct any tendency to "uppishness" on the part of the Jinnee.

He was about a full dose for uppishness, that young feller was: going on as if he’d bought the Territory, and as if the folks in it was the peones he’d took over––Mexican fashion––along with the land.

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.

That's nothing but uppishness, Lois.