uppity
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.