uppity
IPA: ˈʌpʌti
adjective
- Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.
- Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.
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Examples of "uppity" in Sentences
- Don't be so uppity and peddantik.
- I'm sorry for getting so uppity and all.
- But you don't have to get uppity about it.
- I'm not sure why people are being so uppity.
- Or called him "uppity" -- on at least two occasions.
- But it's not something I'm going to get uppity about.
- Or being targeted for rape and murder if you get uppity.
- It's just your in your face, uppity pretentiousness, you see.
- But it seems to be some uppity students just blanking that section.
- He said that they belong to a group that sees themselves as uppity.
- If not, the uppity little so and so gets to gloat for the next five days.
- "I think the word uppity was invented so they'd have something to call you."
- What are people actually saying when you hear the word uppity in association with Senator Barack Obama?
- So when Olbermann asks Obama to respond to an ugly use of the word uppity, Obama just laughs when we expected anger.
- They start cursing what they call "uppity Catalans," accusing Barcelona - the capital of Catalonia - of turning the world against bullfighting.
- As I mentioned in my pre-election article, one southern politician even called him "uppity" -- and then denied that that had a racial connotation.
- We've already seen "uppity" - are we going to see some Repub drop an N-bomb before the end, with others jumping in to legitimize it as part of the political discourse?
- Meanwhile Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland calling the Obamas "uppity" -- a slur that is one more downed beer away from being nigger -- barely got a register out of the left.
- As Ron Christie demonstrates in his recent book, Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur, the notion that blacks who sought social, cultural or intellectual advancement were "acting white" was a slur that originated during slavery and Reconstruction as a way for whites to keep down so-called "uppity" blacks.