Thesaurus / uppity
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Den, how come you talk so uppity, like a man wid de law on he side and ain't a-scared o' nobody?
CAPTAIN TEDLOUIS PENDLETON
She was making her do that because she thought she was uppity and she wanted to punish her.
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We ought to beat hershell get too uppity to live with, declared Bobby, discussing these games.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISON
You was 'fested with letheh straps an' uppity talk when I knowed you fust.
LADY LUCKHUGH WILEY
WORDS RELATED TO UPPITY
- aloof
- antagonistic
- brooding
- cold
- cool
- distant
- easy-going
- hostile
- inaccessible
- inhospitable
- introverted
- laid-back
- nongregarious
- recessive
- reclusive
- reserved
- retiring
- secretive
- sensitive
- shy
- standoffish
- stuck-up
- timid
- unapproachable
- unbending
- uncommunicative
- uncongenial
- unforthcoming
- unneighborly
- unsocial
- uppity
- withdrawn
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