– Closed-Minded with a generous touch of snobbish uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Forgetting His Attacks On The Netroots, O’Reilly Says Media Are Using ‘Nuts’ To ‘Brand’ Tea Party As ‘Racists] Reference
Clearly we need to resurrect the Alien and Sedition Acts, so to prevent further outbreaks of uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Jail Time for Sending Racist Message to a City Councilman:] Reference
The first woman to run for president in this country, Victoria Woodhull, almost got castrated for her uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens in Vegas ...] Reference
AW, I was so relieved to be the one that got out alive that I barely even considered the very cool bookwormy-uppityness part of her. From Wordnik.com. [Things swiped] Reference
I would include Graham, but there's no Commandment against uppityness; if there were, I would have sued Georgia's Westmoreland long ago. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie Van Ostrand: God Sues Congress] Reference
The issue is the manipulation and intrusion and endlessly self-serving uppityness/control of the British Nomenklatura and Apparachik class. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The Victorias of the world like their little lives neat and orderly. and it isn't smuggness and uppityness that drives her bilge, its inferiority and recognition thereof. From Wordnik.com. ["Anna Nicole Smith embodied America... its overabundance; its exploitability, and its propensity to exploit."] Reference
Negroes; under such officers Negroes who conformed with the southern stereotype were promoted regardless of their abilities, while those who exhibited self-reliance and self-respect -- necessary attributes of leadership -- were humiliated and discouraged for their uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
This whole article stinks of a different kind of bourgeois uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference
These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Malcontents] Reference
It's as if he thinks that these "women's libbers," as they were once called, are really just frivolously playing at being professional people, and that this cute but annoying uppityness will simply go out of fashion at some point in the near future, at which point men like him will casually resume their natural place at the apex of all things. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanity Press] Reference
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [Whitewash] Reference
But I be fearing from the hyumon’s hand position that already there be feelings of uppityness on part of hyumon, Ceiling Cat will someday has to hiss and spit and snarl upon man, and the Wrath of Khan…I mean of Ceiling Cat will be knownst. From Wordnik.com. [ceiling cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Many insecure men seem to be deeply threatened by this, although you don’t see these same men lining up to marry the professional, accomplished women who tend to pursue donor-conceived children, partly because they do see their “uppityness” as a threat. From Wordnik.com. [Donor-Conceived Children and Well-Being of Children] Reference
Even for a culture that gets its jollies from anathema ” a bloody-minded Gong Show with bullies, border guards, and bounty hunters deployed to dictate orthodoxies of style, enforce parochialisms of genre, stomp on insouciant behavior, and pull down uppityness ” the overkill on The Black Veil was crapulous. From Wordnik.com. [In the Desert, Prime Time] Reference
"These N egroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference
Maybe it’s her anti-uppityness. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Palin and the Jews] Reference
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