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Definitions

stuck-up

[stuhk-uhp] / ˈstʌkˈʌp /
ADJECTIVE
snobbish
Synonyms
WEAK
arrogant big-headed cocky conceited condescending egotistic haughty high-and-mighty hoity-toity nose in the air ostentatious patronizing pompous pretentious puffed up snippy snooty snotty too big for one's britches uppity vain

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

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

Alicia is stuck-up ever since she went to college.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros