uppishness


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Noun1.uppishness - assumption of airs beyond one's stationuppishness - assumption of airs beyond one's station
uppityness
effrontery, presumptuousness, presumption, assumption - audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
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uppishness

noun
Informal. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident:
assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness.
Informal: brass, crust, sauce, uppityness.
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This would trouble and irritate some people; the sublime equanimity of the hired boatman under the ordeal affords us a beautiful lesson against ambition and uppishness.
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The writer added that there is an uppishness image projected onto women, that they are objects that need care.
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Hobson's Choice Henry Hobson is incensed at the "general of uppishness" among his three daughters.
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