How To Use Jumped-up In A Sentence
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The pitch-perfect trumpets punch out the jumped-up tune, the saxophones gliding smoothly beneath them.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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So they're just going to treat you like any jumped-up creep of a musician and ignore you.
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Doesn't he look like the most obnoxious, jumped-up school sports team leader of your youth?
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Some jumped-up City type has even worked out Beckham's different market values as an individual, married or divorced.
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He's nothing better than a jumped-up bank clerk!
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Lord Kilian won't let a jumped-up highlander lord it over two experienced administrators like you and me.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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The revelations have been received gleefully in French publishing and literary circles, where the author is regarded as a jumped-up interloper who has defiled French literature.
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These jumped-up City Aldermen had strange new ways, and odd formalities like gentry through the front door, servants through the back.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Plato does not provide any consoling myth at all for the jumped-up dictator who claims to know what is best for the people.
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And we thought they were all just jumped-up waitresses.
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He's nothing better than a jumped-up bank clerk!
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Lovesong of the Electric Bear by Snoo Wilson, a jumped-up bioplay about artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing.
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Jubilant jumped-up managers all over the country embarked on a new aggression against the people who do the work.
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It is surely the end of the line for these jumped-up bureaucrats with lots of power and not much sense of their democratic responsibilities.
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‘And I, for one,’ replied Sara hotly, ‘will not be bullied by a jumped-up little hoodlum.’
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Here is an example of jumped-up twits hurting the party through personal animosity.
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From Chile to Mexico, Honduras to Brazil, the area dances to the sound of a Latin beat, giving it a jumped-up energy and sense of style that, especially at night, has a certain funkiness.
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Instead of filing her letter in the recycling bin, some jumped-up hypersensitive apparatchik at the council decided to be offended on behalf the whole community.
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He was a jumped-up Austrian, a loner, always excluded from picnics and parties, and to compensate he always felt he had to be on top of his game.
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His message is that nobody can get a wage rise unless they accept less time with their family and friends, longer hours at work, and endless bullying from jumped-up managers.
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On the latter view, he is little more than a cog in the universal machine - a cosmic accident, a jumped-up germ.
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But surely making a jumped-up Hollywood star look like a pillock is big and clever?
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Lord Kilian won't let a jumped-up highlander lord it over two experienced administrators like you and me.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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what is this Todd but a mechanic, a jumped-up car salesman?
FINAL RESORT
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Well, they were right, in that it was a place for someone much older, not a jumped-up bloody loudmouth like me.
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Then some jumped-up English playwright wrote about this whole fracas.
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Told you no bunch of jumped-up mages can stand against your parents.
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He was a jumped-up clarinettist who was abrasively uncompromising about achieving top quality standards.
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He's not really an accountant, just a jumped-up office clerk.
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How can I get her to lay off without sounding like a jumped-up cow?
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When you add to this a jumped-up ego, fuelled by the environment and training given to firearms officers, the result is clearly depicted by this sad case.
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Old nobles regarded them as jumped-up - although they were eager enough to ‘regild the arms' with their daughters' dowries.
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The pitch-perfect trumpets punch out the jumped-up tune, the saxophones gliding smoothly beneath them.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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And if that's what they want, they should never change just for the sake of being able to spend a bit of time with some jumped-up idiot.
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His jumped-up, passionate nature has already minoritised him with the US media and selective segments of power.
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These jumped-up guardians of the yellow lines show no respect for man, beast or the Scottish team.