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- noun Alternative form of
uppitiness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun assumption of airs beyond one's station
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Examples
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We are indeed responsible for all the "uppityness" they hate
TPMCafe 2008
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This should (but won't), however, cure one reflexive media habit, and that is recoiling in mock horror when someone like Howard Dean has the "uppityness" to call the Republican Party
Mad as Hell 2008
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– Closed-Minded with a generous touch of snobbish uppityness.
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– Closed-Minded with a generous touch of snobbish uppityness.
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Kula Shaker Peter Pan RIP (Strangefolk) MIA might have attracted most of this year's moral uppityness for her cinematic study of ginger snuff, but YouTube has clearly not seen the video for this.
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I would include Graham, but there's no Commandment against uppityness; if there were, I would have sued Georgia's Westmoreland long ago.
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Clearly we need to resurrect the Alien and Sedition Acts, so to prevent further outbreaks of uppityness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jail Time for Sending Racist Message to a City Councilman: 2009
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The issue is the manipulation and intrusion and endlessly self-serving uppityness/control of the British Nomenklatura and Apparachik class.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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There was always the threat of uppityness: Some Floridians had never gotten over those interfering Northern dogooders with their Negro schools and social programs.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness.
"The bigoted past of Ron Paul." Ann Althouse 2008
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