stuck-up
Example Sentences
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She leaps on the wall dividing her home and that of her stuck-up neighbors, in heels no less.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026
Neil’s father, who has health problems, assumes his son will join him in his painting business; Topher’s are conservative stuck-up pills who, like Amanda, have him slated for a career in finance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
This Netflix holiday romance turns to a classic formula: A blue-collar widower strikes up an improbable romance with a stuck-up heiress betrothed to a cocky himbo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2022
She is notable for playing a stuck-up new friend of Dorothy’s in a third-season episode.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
The Wesleys were professional people, prim and proper, but not in a stuck-up way.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
