uppity
adj : presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening
manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"-
S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be
slapped down"- NY Times [syn: overweening]
WordNet (r) 2.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "uppity":
arrogant, audacious, big, brash, bumptious, cold, condescending,
contumelious, cool, disdainful, domineering, familiar, forward,
haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed,
hoity-toity, hubristic, insolent, insulting, lofty, obtrusive,
overbearing, overpresumptuous, overweening, patronizing, presuming,
presumptuous, procacious, proud, purse-proud, pushful, pushing,
pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, stuck-up, superior,
toplofty, uppish, upstage
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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