How To Use Uppish In A Sentence
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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
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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
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She sensed, too, that her English accent kept her a little apart, made her sound uppish.
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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
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They did plan his dismissal in the second innings though, having noticed his tendency to scoop the ball to the onside uppishly.
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uppishness" when the sale was over she should soon be made to see that it wouldn't pay.
Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I try to explain these things to her, but she thinks that I am merely making mad experiments with money, teaching workmen to be "uppish" and setting employers against me.
The History of David Grieve
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The comedy portrays the changing relationship between Henry Horatio Hobson, a widower and boot-shop proprietor, and his three daughters who have begun showing ‘a general increase of uppishness’.
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My dear, you really cannot tell what a difficulty we experience in getting servants who are not "uppish," and who are trustworthy and do not mind working, and if you can find us one in those pretty villages round you, we shall be so much obliged, '&c.
Hodge and His Masters
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Claydon, a burly blond seamer from Sydney's western suburbs with a British passport who joined Durham in 2007 after two seasons with Yorkshire, then had McGrath driving uppishly to cover, and produced a beauty to find Jonathan Bairstow's outside edge three overs before the close.
Jacques Rudolph's century puts Yorkshire on course to beat Durham
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The Wife and Daughter, frightened as they are, raise their heads uppishly and follow flatfooted, sustained by a sense of their Sunday clothes and social consequence.
Back to Methuselah
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They should not have allowed themselves to assume that the "uppishness" was due to want of that humility which they rightly expected in their pupils.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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And yet there was something rather "uppish" in commanding
Dream Days
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All this kowtowing will go to his head and make him as 'uppish' as the rest of 'em.
The Native Born or, the Rajah's People
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From the edge of the small waves Somers heard one man talking to another, and the English tones — unconsciously he expected a foreign language — and particularly the peculiar educated – artisan quality, almost a kind of uppishness that there is in the speech of Australian working men, struck him as incongruous with their picking up the coal – cobs from the shore.
Kangaroo
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It may be grossly unfair of me to suggest it, but when one of their number is singled out, even the most charitable colleagues will be on the look-out for the slightest signs of uppishness.
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And yet there was something rather "uppish" in commanding a frigate at the very first set-off, and little spread was left for the ambition.
Dream Days
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insolently injurious" includes, with the idea of injuring others, that of insolent "uppishness" [Donaldson] in relation to one's self.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In addition, batman often has to rescue, save, or generally protect robin from his uppishness and his willingness to get into trouble.
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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
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This might seem uppish, but I was supposed to have at least 22 points for my bid – the five-card ♠ suit led me to believe that I had what I was promising.
Where did I go wrong?
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She could see nursemaids wheeling babies towards the Gardens, and noted their faces gazing, not at the babies, but, uppishly, at other nursemaids, or, with a sort of cautious longing, at men who passed.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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Also pulls well, though sometimes hits it uppishly.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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No sign of that variable bounce, and the Notts bowlers haven't had the luck with the new ball they needed - Lyth has played and missed a bit, and Rudolph steered one uppishly between slips and gully.
County cricket - as it happened!
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The 38-year-old brought up a dogged ton with a fortunate under-edge for a single before Sammy accounted for Mishra, who cut uppishly to Bravo.
Rahul Dravid century gives India fighting chance against West Indies
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Why all their uppishness amounts to is extra special greedy guts, ten – thousand – a – year minimum.
Kangaroo
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But they're a pretty uppish sort, most of 'em," he said to
CHAPTER IX
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Davies gets on strike and hits a drive cum cut uppishly through point with his bat halfway between 90 and 180 degrees.
England v Pakistan – as it happened!
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We'll need somebody to heave a bucket of water on Issy pretty soon; he's gettin 'kind of pert and uppish again.
The Portygee
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Not to sound one-uppish, but I learned this lesson some time ago.
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