In Beverly Hills, an uppity dowager surveyed the crowd in Saks's swank shop, asked: "Who are all these people?" Cracked the salesgirl: "They're cash customers.
Because girls understand that if they're too pushy, too uppity, or too physically powerful, they will be called lesbian, man-hating feminists and will lose all popularity.
Frameline37: 10 notable films in the 2013 LGBT festival lineup June 15--A tortured priest in Poland repressing his sexual longings, an uppity Yale grad working on an Oregon farm, and a female law student running afoul of a bad-news rich girl. What unites them?
June 15, 2013 - HispanicBusiness.com
Hillary Rodham Clinton in Capitol Hill Blue (AP) -- Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed a voter's suggestion that when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called him elitist it "bordered on uppity."
Lynn Westmoreland in FOXNews Speaking to reporters Thursday, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Grantville, Ga., described the Obamas as members of an "elitist-class ...... that thinks that they're uppity," according to The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper.
Clarence Thomas in Telegraph.co.uk This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a hi-tech lynching for uppity blacks,he said.