uppishness


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Synonyms for uppishness

assumption of airs beyond one's station

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spirits, exuberance, liveliness, uppishness, arrogance' (O Donaill
One language, two tongues: George Fitzmaurice's use of Hiberno-English dialect
According to many white Americans, black education was dangerous because with education, African Americans might "acquire uppishness" and "fancy that they are equal to whites" (qtd.
Educating for change: Lydia Maria Child's nineteenth-century critical pedagogy
The "dissertation" on high people and low people in Fielding's Joseph Andrews or the contests of uppishness among servants in his novels are a comic demonstration of the passionate pedantry which animated the practices of social competitiveness among all gradations of rank, and a rich variety of real-life examples is on display in the writings of the period.
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Woodforde was shocked at this uppishness from a poor neighbour, whom he employed occasionally as a handyman.
Georgian England: one state, many faiths
Henry Hobson is incensed at the 'general increase of uppishness' amongst his three daughters.
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