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stuck-up

[stuhk-uhp] / ˈstʌkˈʌp /


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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

“Golf is kind of a stuck-up sport,” Rodriquez told the Saturday Evening Post in 1989.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A gallant blue-collar widower strikes up an improbable romance with a wealthy, stuck-up heiress betrothed to a cocky himbo who is written expressly to be disliked.

From New York Times ● Nov. 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

Something about her looked stuck-up, though I couldn’t say what.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben


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