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n. - Assumption of airs beyond one's station.

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Usage examples (31)
  • "uppishness" when the sale was over she should soon be made to see that it wouldn't pay.
  • That's not uppishness, Alexis, it's sheer bloody euphoria dancing on clouds of seventy proof.
  • Why all their uppishness amounts to is extra special greedy guts, ten – thousand – a – year minimum.
  • When mere uppishness takes it the end is not changed, though it may be reached more precipitately and disastrously.
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