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  • s  (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant

  • One day last month at Strawbridge Clothier's, swank Philadelphia department store, a Guild investigator became quietly uppish.
  • After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them.
  • Their spouses (Cynthia Harris and Andrew Duncan) are more hang-backish or hung-uppish.
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  • Mohammad Ashraful in CricInfo.com
    We recovered very, very well after slumping to 18 for 4. Shakib and Raqibul got us out of jail with that 119-run partnership but then Raqibul got out playing an uppish shot in the first ball of the 38th over which upset the team plan,Ashraful...

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