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uh puh tee

  • s  presumptuously arrogant
    getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times

  • Even Reid's freshmen are uppity.
  • 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.
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  • 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.

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