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jumped-up

ADJECTIVE
  1. (British informal) upstart

How To Use jumped-up In A Sentence

  • He was a jumped-up clarinettist who was abrasively uncompromising about achieving top quality standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • His message is that nobody can get a wage rise unless they accept less time with their family and friends, longer hours at work, and endless bullying from jumped-up managers.
  • On the latter view, he is little more than a cog in the universal machine - a cosmic accident, a jumped-up germ.
  • But surely making a jumped-up Hollywood star look like a pillock is big and clever?
  • Lord Kilian won't let a jumped-up highlander lord it over two experienced administrators like you and me. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • what is this Todd but a mechanic, a jumped-up car salesman? FINAL RESORT
  • Well, they were right, in that it was a place for someone much older, not a jumped-up bloody loudmouth like me.
  • Then some jumped-up English playwright wrote about this whole fracas.
  • Told you no bunch of jumped-up mages can stand against your parents.
  • He was a jumped-up Austrian, a loner, always excluded from picnics and parties, and to compensate he always felt he had to be on top of his game.
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