Uppish (Adjective)
Meaning
(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- She couldn't stand the new colleague with her uppish attitude towards the team members.
- He started off humble, but his rise to fame soon brought out an uppish side he hadn't known he had.
- Some viewers accused the award-winning actress of coming across as rather uppish in the TV interview.
- With their money and fancy upbringing, they tended to act quite uppish and treat those with lesser means poorly.
- Despite their low grades, they continued to talk with an uppish air of intellectual superiority about obscure philosophical topics.