uppish

How To Use uppish In A Sentence

• Also pulls well, though sometimes hits it uppishly. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• In addition, batman often has to rescue, save, or generally protect robin from his uppishness and his willingness to get into trouble.
• 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
• 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?
• 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
• 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