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We are quite uppish and sniff at the tinned stuff in the supply dump, we want fresh vegetables.

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As a young man, after Harvard and emigration to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, he might, he admits, have appeared “a shade uppish.”

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And of course, there are some flash expressions that have held over—and evolved into mainstream speech—like sans and uppish.

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Which some servants are awfully uppish, and thinks themselves no end of nobs.

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Whatever I do, or propose doing, I am met and stopped by those confounded uppish notions of hers, to which everything else must be kept subordinate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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