uppish

How To Use uppish In A Sentence

• That new boy of yours is kind of uppish," remarked Mrs. Bickford, when she returned to the sitting room. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus
• It is therefore not surprising that the majority of the Committee began by taking its work uppishly and carelessly. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
• She sensed, too, that her English accent kept her a little apart, made her sound uppish.
• He was, in fact, a very forward and uppish young fellow, this prisoner, though it might have been partly bravado. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
• They did plan his dismissal in the second innings though, having noticed his tendency to scoop the ball to the onside uppishly.
• uppishness" when the sale was over she should soon be made to see that it wouldn't pay. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
• He was especially severe in commenting on the "uppishness," (to use a word of modern coinage), of young men under age adopting the slang engendered by the French Revolutionary times, and prating about the rights of man, the inalienable right of resistance to tyranny, and such "bigoty" phrases. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
• a moment, and then, seeing that Uncle Remus paid no attention to her, she sat down and picked at her fingers with an air quite in contrast to her usual "uppishness," as Uncle Remus called it. Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
• Offers of pipes, clasp-knives, tobacco, etc., rained upon him from the very men who had cuffed and kicked him like a dog but a few days before; and even his refusal of these gifts, which would formerly have been set down to conceit and "uppishness," was now taken in perfectly good part. Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
• Barby, I believe, has a good opinion of us, and charitably concludes that we mean right; but some other of our country friends would think I was far gone in uppishness if they knew that I never touch fish with a steel knife; and it wouldn't mend the matter much to tell them that the combination of flavours is disagreeable to me – it hardly suits the doctrine of liberty and equality that my palate should be so much nicer than theirs. Queechy